19-year-old Taybe Yusein of Bulgaria is a rising young star, who has won the European Senior silver medal for the last two years and the 2011 Junior World gold medal in free style wrestling. Wrestling is hugely popular in Bulgaria where it has been practiced since ancient times and has given the country 16 Olympic and 52 World titles. Women's wrestling, though, is relatively new and will be on the Olympic program only for the third time in London 2012. It is all but easy to be a wrestler in Bulgaria. Though conditions are usually good at training camps for national team athletes, there is nothing positive to be said about the situation of sports facilities throughout the country. Wages and rewards for elite sportsmen and women are extremely low in Bulgaria and the temptation to accept offers from foreign teams is great. In Bulgarian the word �wrestler� is a synonym for Mafioso, racketeer or/and contract killer. Because of their programmed sense of obedience, loyalty and militancy, but also because of their studied killer instinct, former Bulgarian wrestlers, especially those who had been active athletes in the late 1980s, were put in these very positions in the early years of transition into democracy. Many of these men are still active gangsters.