16 wrestlers have qualified for the US out of the 290 athletes who will compete in the Olympic Games. It has six places in the freestyle event, six in the women's event and four in the Greco-Roman event. Japan follows with 13 wrestlers, and there will be two neutral individual wrestlers and two refugee athletes.

Gable Steveson, super-heavyweight freestyle wrestling champion at the Tokyo Olympics, has signed a free agent contract with the USA’s National Football League team Buffalo Bills, the club announced on Friday. The 5-foot-11, 266-pound Olympian has reportedly not previously played football in his athletic career. 

Russian wrestler Abdulrashid Sadulaev, a two-time Olympic freestyle wrestling champion, has been banned from competing in the qualifying tournament for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, according to the Russian Wrestling Federation.

The Zagreb Open was the first major tournament of Olympic wrestling in 2024. Athletes came to Croatia to complete various tasks at the beginning of the Olympic year.

Georgian wrestlers won four gold medals in the men's freestyle finals at the United World Wrestling Grand Prix de France Henri Deglane in Nice.

More than 300 athletes have taken part in an international freestyle wrestling event in Minsk, as preparations continue before the second European Games in the city in 2019.