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Wrestling dropped from 2020 Games
ESPN ^ | February 12, 2013, 1:58 PM ET

Posted on 02/12/2013 11:10:28 AM PST by BenLurkin

Tags: IOC, 2020 Olympics, Daniel Cormier

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- IOC leaders dropped wrestling from the Olympic program on Tuesday, a surprise decision that removes one of the oldest Olympic sports from the 2020 Games.

The IOC executive board decided to retain modern pentathlon -- the event considered most at risk -- and remove wrestling instead from its list of 25 "core sports."

The IOC board acted after reviewing the 26 sports on the current Olympic program. Eliminating one sport allows the International Olympic Committee to add a new sport to the program later this year.

Wrestling, which combines freestyle and Greco-Roman events, goes back to the inaugural modern Olympics in Athens in 1896.

"This is a process of renewing and renovating the program for the Olympics," IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. "In the view of the executive board, this was the best program for the Olympic Games in 2020. It's not a case of what's wrong with wrestling, it is what's right with the 25 core sports."

(Excerpt) Read more at espn.go.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: athletes; olympic2020; olympics; sports; wrestling
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Good grief.
1 posted on 02/12/2013 11:10:34 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

1896?! Heck, it goes back to the 5th century BC!


2 posted on 02/12/2013 11:12:28 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("C'est la vie" say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell. -- Chuck Berry)
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The 25 sports are: athletics, rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.

http://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-executive-board-recommends-25-core-sports-for-2020-games/190772


3 posted on 02/12/2013 11:13:26 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

But, gymnastic dancing is a sport?


4 posted on 02/12/2013 11:13:31 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Soon the "invisible hand" will press the economic "reset" button.)
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To: BenLurkin
Oh nose! No rustlin?!


5 posted on 02/12/2013 11:14:08 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Cowboy Bob

No, but ping pong and canoeing supposedly are!


6 posted on 02/12/2013 11:14:19 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

Cut Olympic wrestling but keep horse dancing/dressage. F the IOC!


7 posted on 02/12/2013 11:16:07 AM PST by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: BenLurkin

But Badminton, dancing, ping-pong (uh “table tennis”) and the abomination called “rhythmic gymnastics” are “sports.”


8 posted on 02/12/2013 11:17:18 AM PST by freedumb2003 (I learned everything I needed to know about racism from Colin Powell)
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To: BenLurkin; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

What about pocket billiards?


9 posted on 02/12/2013 11:18:37 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: BenLurkin

Wrestling is a queer activity.


10 posted on 02/12/2013 11:19:08 AM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: BenLurkin

“No, but ping pong and canoeing supposedly are!”

I’m going to take a wild guess and say wrestling was cut because it’s just too aggressive for liberal sensibilities.


11 posted on 02/12/2013 11:19:45 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: BenLurkin
To be replaced with Hacky Sack.,


12 posted on 02/12/2013 11:20:24 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: BenLurkin

table tennis? They kept ping-pong as an olympic sport but phased out wrestling?


13 posted on 02/12/2013 11:21:17 AM PST by VietVet (I am old enough to know who I am and what I believe, and I 'm not inclined to apologize for any of)
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To: Tau Food

“Wrestling is a queer activity.”

Then you must have spent years and years wrestling?


14 posted on 02/12/2013 11:21:29 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: BenLurkin
table tennis?

badminton?

basketball?

Give me a break.

15 posted on 02/12/2013 11:24:02 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: TexasCajun

Combine shooting and archery with dressage.

Call it the Cavalry.


16 posted on 02/12/2013 11:24:59 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I own a weapon to protect my family from those wanting to take that weapon away.)
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To: brownsfan
Some guys enjoy rolling around on the floor in the arms of another man.

Some don't.

I'm in the latter group.

17 posted on 02/12/2013 11:24:59 AM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Tau Food

“Wrestling is a queer activity.”

So do you have homosexual thoughts often when watching wrestling?


18 posted on 02/12/2013 11:25:50 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: BenLurkin

Last Olympics I watched, I didn’t think there was any other sport except beach volleyball. That’s all I ever saw when I turned it on.


19 posted on 02/12/2013 11:25:53 AM PST by ZX12R
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To: Tau Food

Nonsense.


20 posted on 02/12/2013 11:27:33 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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