Clarissa Chun Video Interview, U.S. Olympic Bronze Medalist Wrestler
Clarissa Chun knocked off the 2004 gold medalist, Irini Merleni of Ukraine, to give the USA its first Olympic medal in wrestling in the 2012 Games. The win also avenged a 2008 bronze medal match loss to Merleni. Going into the Olympics, Chun had experienced some disturbance as her coach Keith Wilson left the team for unspecified personal reasons. “She went through a lot of turmoil in the last month. I’m just happy for her that she could keep it together,” U.S. national women’s coach Terry Steiner told the Detroit Free Press. “Her main coach isn’t here for her. I mean she really had to get to the point that she could get this done and she could do it herself.”
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