Enjoy the Olympics gold medal winning result of Saytiev in third freestyle wrestling here-From Yahoo sports news-This was the most difficult of Buvaysa Saytiev’s record-tying three Olympic freestyle wrestling gold medals to achieve, if only because it seemed like he needed to win it twice.The first time came when he wrestled his way back onto the Russian national team two months ago, and that took beating the reigning world and European champion—a difficult feat that sometimes isn’t needed even at an Olympics.The 33-year-old went on to win the Olympics themselves, and in a one-day format that didn’t benefit someone who gave up nine years to his opponent in the gold-medal match.Saytiev matched his golds of 1996 and 2004 by defeating Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan 0-1, 1-0, 3-1 in the 74 kilograms (163 pounds) finals on Wednesday. The only previous three-time freestyle gold medalist was the Soviet Union’s Alexander Medved in 1964, 1968 and 1972, but Saytiev is the first to win three over four Olympics.Champions as special as Saytiev always seem to find a way to persevere, to win when it seems victory is escaping them. He did so again in a performance as gutty as any in his career.“My character and my emotional makeup brought me the victory,” said Saytiev, who needed every possible advantage after losing the first period in his fifth match of the day.Because of an unlucky draw, Saytiev wrestled a qualification bout merely to get into the round of 16, while Tigiev advanced with a bye. That extra match almost made a difference.“The opponent was very young,” Russian coach Dmitry Mindiashvili said. “Of course, any athlete feels stressful and nervous before competition. But I told him to forget about the goal, the medal. What a wrestler should do on the mat is to fight.”After his come-from-behind gold-medal win, one achieved by two point-producing single-leg takedowns in the third period, Saytiev brought back memories of former American gold medalist Rulon Gardner’s on-mat retirement in Athens.Then, Gardner took off his shoes and left them in the middle of the mat; this time, Saytiev carefully placed the Russian flag he wore during his victory celebration at center mat as hundreds of Russian fans chanted “Sy-tee-ah! Sy-tee-ah!”Saytiev didn’t officially retire despite the gray that now spreads through his beard, but he can’t see a way he would be in London in 2012 at age 37.“I represent a very strong team and people of my age in four years’ time would probably not get onto a team of such high quality,” he said.Especially when Saytiev needed to be at his best this year merely to get onto that team, which won six of the seven freestyle weight classes in the 2007 world championships. Russia has five wrestling golds in Beijing, three in Greco-Roman and those by Mavlet Batirov at 60 kg (132 pounds) and Saytiev in freestyle, with three more weights to be wrestled Thursday.Saytiev, who fell to eighth in the world in 2006, regained his Olympic spot after defeating world and European champion Makhach Murtzaliev in the Russian nationals in June.“He got ill in 2006 and had a bad time,” Mindiashvili said. “But now he has fully recovered from his illness and regained his power.”Saytiev won his first gold at Atlanta in 1996, only to be upset by eventual gold medalist Brandon Slay of the United States in the first round in Sydney.Saytiev came back to win in Athens in 2004, but it was uncertain until several months ago if he would be in Beijing because most countries find it difficult to sit a 24-year-old world champion. Even for a wrestler as revered in Russia as Saytiev, who now has won nine world-level titles: three Olympics and six world championships.The bronzes were won by Murad Gaidarov of Belarus and Kiril Terziev of Bulgaria.Saytiev quickly justified his selection, beating Cho Byung-Kwan of South Korea 1-0, 7-2; Ahmet Gulhan of Turkey 1-0, 4-1 and 2004 silver medalist Ivan Fundora of Cuba 2-0, 2-1, a match after Fundora eliminated rookie Ben Askren of the United States 3-0, 4-0. Saytiev pinned Terziev in the semifinals.Askren promised at the U.S. trials in June he would win the gold and, he hinted, would beat Saytiev while doing so. Askren would have met Saytiev if he had beaten Fundora, but was never competitive in the match.“I lost—I don’t know what to say,” a crying Askren said.Maybe it was too much to expect two Americans with scant international experience to meet and beat Saytiev in the span of three Olympics.Saytiev nearly met Gaidarov in a rematch of their Athens bout that ended with Saytiev winning and the two wrestlers fighting as they left the mat, a fracas that briefly involved spectators. But Gaidarov lost to Tigiev 1-0, 1-0 in the semifinals.Asked if any of his three sons might follow him into wrestling as a gold medalist, Saytiev said, “Why not? But they’re still young.”