GABLE STEVESON WINS GOLD

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesThat. Just. Happened. In what is already being branded as the Miracle on the Mat, Gable Steveson came from three points behind to score a pair of takedowns in the last 6.5 seconds of the gold medal match including the winning maneuver with 0.2 seconds left on the clock to earn a 10-8 victory and the Olympic 125 kg freestyle wrestling Olympic Gold medal. Gable Steveson is an Olympic Champion.

Steveson’s foe in the gold medal match was Geno Petriashvili from Georgia. He was the bronze medalist in Rio in 2016 and is the three time defending world champion. He would not make thing easy for Gable, and as the match progressed in the second period it looked like the…