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Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Wrestling - Freestyle - Men's 57kg - Semifinal - Makuhari Messe Hall A, Chiba, Japan - August 4, 2021. Nurislam Sanayev of Kazakhstan in action against Ravi Kumar of India REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw

TOKYO (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's Nurislam Sanayev's got his teeth into the Tokyo 2020 Games, but his rival Ravi Kumar of India wasn't expecting to find them cutting into his skin.

Sanayev lost to Kumar by fall, in a bantamweight match in freestyle wrestling on Wednesday at Tokyo's Makuhari Messe Hall.

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