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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."

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: athletes; olympic2020; olympics; sports; wrestling
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To: US Navy Vet

Interesting stuff. Very “real world”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankration


41 posted on 02/12/2013 12:09:55 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

Another IOC sucks moment! Wrestling to be replaced by some baton twirling gay game? Something the Chinese can compete in without turning their female athletes into men maybe?
Shall I continue?


42 posted on 02/12/2013 12:25:08 PM PST by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites. is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: The Great RJ
almost as exciting as curling.

It took 34 replies to have someone mention my favorite "sport" of curling. < /sarc>

43 posted on 02/12/2013 12:25:45 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Dims are stupid, period. End of conversation.)
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To: BenLurkin

Wrestling is just too violent of a sport. These violent activities must end. Don’t you know.


44 posted on 02/12/2013 12:45:58 PM PST by Patriot365
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To: USNBandit
" table tennis people hate it when you call it ping pong. "

Do they ever play on grass or clay?

45 posted on 02/12/2013 12:51:55 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Sacajaweau
"Why do we even have the Olympics??"

A necessary venue for passing out free condoms?

46 posted on 02/12/2013 12:53:53 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: BenLurkin

The 6 people who still follow modern pentathlon must have bribed the IOC some major $$$. Jim Thorpe won Gold in MP in 1912 and no one has cared since


47 posted on 02/12/2013 12:54:26 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (GOP = Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: Paladin2
Do they ever play on grass or clay?

Grass ping pong table?


48 posted on 02/12/2013 12:57:02 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: BenLurkin; All

The Olympics was so much that was good. It was a search for excellence in the human activities, the search for honor, and a search for competition for its own sake.

If you walk next to the original Olympic Stadium which still stands, you see a row of statues, names still visible carved into the bases, not to the victors to memorialize the greatness of their accomplishments, but rather to the cheaters, to record forever the shame of their cheating. The shame was eternal.

The winners received laurels which were wreaths around their heads to wear on the way home and thus show the honors of their victories. The gift was of fleeting moment, but the highest personal honor.

Now, we honor the winners with modern day statues in the forms of gifts of money and contracts, to try to give them everlasting fame, and we fleetingly shame the cheaters by giving them a temporary thistle of shame, which withers, dies and blows away, never to be remembered.

The Olympics were to compete in a field of honor, and politics were set aside, so as to allow safe passage through enemy territory for the purpose of the competition and for safe return.

Now, the politics guide the Olympics, wars are not suspended for their ceremony, and it is nothing more than a commercial enterprise on an international scale.

I am sad that wrestling has ended, but I am more sad that the Olympic Spirit died long ago, anyway.

As go the Olympics, so goes civilization, one a mirror of the other.


49 posted on 02/12/2013 12:58:38 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Revolting cat!

It’s a totally different game. ;-)


50 posted on 02/12/2013 1:02:21 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: US Navy Vet

Or this;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15m_i6QPAXE


51 posted on 02/12/2013 1:14:49 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: BenLurkin

I can’t help but think that they think wrestling is to masculine to be an internationally competitive sport.


52 posted on 02/12/2013 1:16:18 PM PST by Usagi_yo
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To: Tau Food

As a former wrestler, I heard that thought expressed frequently.

However, it is queer like hand-to-hand combat is queer.

The original purpose of the Olympic Competitions was to permit the contestants to seek excellence in the battle skills, and to test the abilities among the warriors.

If you believe the training of a warrior is queer, then I guess wrestling is queer.

At least, one could say that the goal was to F you up. Context, however, is key.


53 posted on 02/12/2013 1:17:24 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Usagi_yo

I can’t help but think that they think wrestling is to masculine to be an internationally competitive sport
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Probably dropping it before the ‘ladies’ make a serious attempt to join.

However, I remember some of those E. German LADIES(?) and would imagine the majority of them could hold their own??

That would make it join the ‘old VN logic - We must destroy the ‘village’ in order to save it’.


54 posted on 02/12/2013 1:22:13 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Combine shooting and archery with dressage.
Call it the Cavalry.

That would be pretty close to "Modern Pentathlon" and is already an Olympic event, though not well televised at all.

55 posted on 02/12/2013 1:31:35 PM PST by Rio (Tempis Fugit.)
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To: ZX12R
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.

Yeah, I got that impression too. A side note with the advent of us going digital with HDTV and subchannels, why can't NBC set up subchannels with other sports, even if they could only offer them in standard definition (HD makes no difference to me, I've been watching the same TV set for 30 years daily), that way you can have one event on 11-1 (virtual channel number for the Pittsburgh NBC affiliate), 11-3, 11-4 and so on. 11-2 is MeTV so that's taken. BTW, some might think I'm a heretic but beach volleyball just does not quite make the cut for me as an Olympic sport. Yes, I will support my teams and hope we win but I just thing we are watering the games down too much.
56 posted on 02/12/2013 1:59:54 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Whitey, I miss you so much. Take care, pretty girl. (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012))
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To: BenLurkin

Between this and iron being replaced in Monopoly by the cat, I’m ready to go watch some dog fighting I’m so mad.


57 posted on 02/12/2013 3:24:46 PM PST by dinoparty
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To: BenLurkin

The Olympic Games ended in the early seventies. Mexico City was the end; and it hasn’t been pretty since. Let ‘em go and save the poor, beleaguered taxpayers around the world their hard-earned money.


58 posted on 02/12/2013 3:53:00 PM PST by BfloGuy (Money, like chocolate on a hot oven, was melting in the pockets of the people.)
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To: BenLurkin

I suspect this has something to do with the feminization of the Olympics. No real man watches rhythmic gymnastics or synchronized swimming. Last summer while watching the Olympics I mentioned to my wife what a joke sport synchonized swimming is. She got a little testy. Apparently a lot of women think “sports” like that are legitimate. What’s next...rhythmic-synchronized pole dancing?


59 posted on 02/12/2013 3:54:40 PM PST by driftless2
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To: ConservativeTeen
Cut Olympic wrestling but keep horse dancing/dressage. F the IOC!

1. Dressage is not a core sport, it's part of esquatarics.

2. Dressage is a demonstration of the skill of controlling a war/cavalry horse. It meets the Spirit of the Olympics: The Art of the Warrior. It should stay.

60 posted on 02/12/2013 4:44:19 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (I think, therefore I am what I yam, and that's all I yam - "Popeye" Descartes)
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