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?
Wrestling is just too violent of a sport. These violent activities must end. Don’t you know.
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
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.
I can’t help but think that they think wrestling is to masculine to be an internationally competitive sport.
Between this and iron being replaced in Monopoly by the cat, I’m ready to go watch some dog fighting I’m so mad.
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.
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?
What in the f—k is wrong with this world? Every day I get more and more pissed off.
They could save time by combining shotgun competition with the dove release. :=)