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2009 USA Wrestling - World Championship Coverage (9/21)

Mon, 09/21/2009 - 16:37 — buckeyewrestling

Following the World Wrestling Championships in Herning, Denmark

Team USA is competing from September 21-27
Gary Abbott; USA Wrestling

The 2009 World Wrestling Championships have started today (Monday, Sept. 21) in Herning, Denmark. There are many ways that wrestling fans can follow the action over the next seven days.

TheMat.com will have comprehensive coverage of the competition, with Craig Sesker and Jason Bryant reporting from press row.

TheMat.com will provide interactive live text reports from the World Championships each session on all seven days. The coverage comes from the Cover It Live software, which allows fans to sign in and participate in the discussion.

To see the Cover It Live text coverage from Herning, visit TheMat.com World Championships Special Section at:

http://www.themat.com/specialevents/2009/worlds/default.php?EventID=21976

TheMat.com will also provide news updates from each session, focusing on the U.S. team as well as the overall World Championships news. These will be posted in the Special Section and on the home page of TheMat.com.

TheMat.com will also be posting video updates from the World Championships, with interviews of athletes and coaches as well as summaries of the day’s action. These videos will appear on USA Wrestling’s YouTube channel, as well as in the Special Section.

TheMat.com will also be posting updated brackets throughout the tournament, allowing fans to follow the results promptly each day.

USA Wrestling will also be doing regular Twitter updates from the event. Sign up and get World Championships tweets at:

http://twitter.com/USAWrestling

UniversalSports.com will webcast the medal-match finals from the World Wrestling Championships each day from Sept. 21-27. The live video stream will be provided at 1:30 p.m. each day on their website:

http://www.universalsports.com

There will also be four different one-hour tape-delayed television broadcasts of highlights of the World Championships. It will air on the Universal Sports network, starting Thursday, Oct. 1 - Sunday, Oct. 4. starting at 7 p.m. ET nightly. The broadcast team is Olympic champion Rulon Gardner and play-by-play announcer Jim Watson.



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