Beijing: Wrestler Rajiv Tomar lost his 120kg freestyle qualification round bout in the Olympics in Beijing on Thursday.
Tomar lost to Steve Mocco of the United States at the Chinese Agricultural University Gymnasium.
The American gauged Rajiv in the first period, which he led 1-0, before scoring three crucial technical points in the lop-sided second segment which was decisive.
Rajiv looked clueless against Mocco and coach PR Sondhi was apparently unhappy with the grappler failing to execute his strategy.
"To be honest, this was a below-par show by Rajiv. Of course Mocco was superior of the two but I still feel Rajiv could have done better. We did not expect him to win but Rajiv did not try enough," Sondhi said.
"Mocco's defence was quite shaky but Rajiv did not attack him. I told him to go on the offence but he did not heed to my advice," rued a dejected Sondhi.
"Tactically speaking, Rajiv did not have a chance against him. He was always cornered and then Mocco came up with a well-executed plan in the second period and we knew it was all over.As it turned out, Mocco did not have much of a chance to reach semi-finals anyway, and that means there was no repechage hope for Rajiv either," he added.
Tomer did not qualify for the play-off rounds because Mocco went on to lose his quarter-final match to Russia's Bakhtiyar Akhmedov., which meant that the Indian wrestler is out of contention for a medal at the Beijing Games.
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