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18-year-old U.S. wrestler loses

Eighteen-year-old Jake Deitchler, the youngest U.S. Olympic wrestler in 32 years, dropped his opening-round match, then lost again in the repechage round of the Greco-Roman 66-kilogram competition to exit the Olympics with an 0-2 record.

The United States, last year's world Greco champion, hasn't gotten a medal yet in two days in Beijing with three wrestlers to go Thursday.

Manuchar Kvirkelia gave Georgia its first Olympic wrestling gold medal by winning the Greco-Roman 74-kilogram weight class, and Steeve Guenot won France's first gold medal in 84 years by taking the Greco-Roman 66-kilogram weight.