Olympics-Wrestling-'New superstar' Lopez Nunez off to a flyer in record bid

Cuban Mijain Lopez Nunez got off to flying start in his bid to become the first four-times Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling on Sunday when he won his first two matches at the Tokyo Games without conceding a point.

Lopez Nunez, who won the super heavyweight title at the last three Olympics, brushed aside Romania's Alin Alexuc Ciurariu 9-0 and Iran's Amin Mirzazadeh 8-0 to reach the semi-finals at the Makuhari Messe Hall.Japanese freestyler Kaori Icho, the first woman in any sport to win individual gold medals at four successive Olympics, is the only wrestler to have won four Olympic titles.

"If he gets the gold medal this week, he will be the first man to have ever achieved that," Laloviv said on Sunday.Advertisement"He's not the youngest wrestler out there. But he's in great form. You cannot see that often, winning in the heaviest category in that age. He's just great." The biggest surprise of the opening day came when Canada's reigning freestyle heavyweight Olympic champion Erica Wiebe lost her opening match 5-4 to Estonia's Epp Maee.

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