Abdulrashid Sadulayev is participating in a training camp with the Azerbaijani team and fully believes that his application for participation in the Olympic Games will be considered and allowed, which is unlikely.
Three-time Olympic champion, state coach in freestyle wrestling Buvaisar Saitiev answered whether famous wrestlers are going to end their careers after they were not allowed to participate in the Olympic Games in Paris.
I do not know of such examples. Here, rather, there are opposite examples. Here is Abdulrashid Sadulayev, with whom I spoke the day before. He is at a training camp and continues to prepare until the very end, hoping that his application will be considered and allowed. Returning to your question, I do not know what to answer, I have not personally spoken to him about this.
Zaurbek Sidakov, for example, said that he wants to switch to MMA. Judging by what I see on the Internet, he has real intentions. I admit that he will try. Perhaps he will start from the bottom, with not the strongest opponents, and then in the process he will understand how great his chances are.
I have not yet spoken with Zaur Uguev, who is 29 years old. But, most likely, many will try themselves in some related types of martial arts. At the same time, no one has yet said that he is finishing, - Saitiev told the correspondent of "Soviet Sport" Nikita Plokhikh.