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IOC cuts wrestling from 2020 Olympics
Yahoo! Sports ^
| 2/12/2013
| Maggie Hendricks
Posted on 02/12/2013 7:39:17 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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This is simply outrageous. Wrestling is one of those which define Olympics, along with marathon. Now 2500 years of tradition goes up in smoke. It should have been the one which stays even when 90% of games are to be cut.
To: TigerLikesRooster
But trans-gender naked badminton is still in!
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posted on
02/12/2013 7:42:44 AM PST
by
yobid
(Catastrophic failure is the only solution)
To: TigerLikesRooster
The motivation here is the rid the world of another, primarily, all male sport. Wrestling is a damn demanding sport and is an essential close quarters combat skill. No faggots allowed.
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posted on
02/12/2013 7:44:50 AM PST
by
Neoliberalnot
(Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Odd..would’ve thought the IOC would be very approving of lot’sa half-naked, sweaty, man-on-man contact.
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posted on
02/12/2013 7:47:49 AM PST
by
moovova
To: TigerLikesRooster
Wrestling? Since when has wrestling been in the Olympics.
Olympics has only three sports as far as I know.
Men’s Swimming
Women’s Gymnastics
Women’s Beach Vollyball
That’s it.
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posted on
02/12/2013 7:48:34 AM PST
by
super7man
To: Neoliberalnot
Dear Lord, please let Dan Gable be on duty at Heaven’s Gate when these IOC members die!!
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posted on
02/12/2013 7:51:00 AM PST
by
King Hawk
To: King Hawk
Women’s Curling is undoubtedly the most demanding sport on the agenda ~
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posted on
02/12/2013 7:58:19 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: muawiyah
Greco-Roman Wrestling to be replaced by Pole Dancing.
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posted on
02/12/2013 8:03:20 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: TigerLikesRooster
It’s not really 2500 years of tradition, it’s a couple hundred years of tradition spread across 2500 years. Still pretty lame to get rid of one of the few real sports.
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posted on
02/12/2013 8:04:36 AM PST
by
discostu
(Not just another moon faced assassin of joy.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Wrestling was boring anyway-just my opinion.
Never could really understand why someone would want participate in a sport in which you subject yourself to be tied up like a pretzel with the potential of your face planted in another man’s sweaty crotch or armpit(s).
Sorry, not my cup of tea!
To: TigerLikesRooster
Yet they're keeping some dumb a$$ made-up event such as rhythmic gymnastics!
My son's wrestled in high school and it is one demanding and skilled sport that dates back to the original Olympics. This is damned shame!
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posted on
02/12/2013 8:08:45 AM PST
by
rochester_veteran
( http://RochesterConservative.com/forums)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Now wrestling will have to face off with seven other sports that are fighting for inclusion in the 2020 Olympics. The list includes includes baseball and softball, which were dropped from the Olympics after Beijing in 2008 and sports trying to make the Olympics for the first time, including karate, squash, roller sports, sport climbing,wake boarding and wushu. squash??? wushu??? wake boarding???
To: Uncle Chip
Great...now there might be room in the venue for Transgender sports.
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posted on
02/12/2013 8:14:44 AM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I’m guessing the worldwide wrestling organization hasn’t been paying bribes at a high enough level.
To: TigerLikesRooster
we can thank the title ix fiasco.
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posted on
02/12/2013 8:20:31 AM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: SeaHawkFan
Probably true.
Even local S. Koreans appear to be shocked. Sure it is a kind of nice that Taekwondo survived, but to them, dropping wrestling from games is simply ridiculous. There are so many fluff games we can do without.
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posted on
02/12/2013 8:20:58 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
This is simply outrageous. Wrestling is one of those which define Olympics, along with marathon. Now 2500 years of tradition goes up in smoke. It should have been the one which stays even when 90% of games are to be cut.I normally don't get worked up about anything that happens in sports (other than in baseball), but you're right. Wrestling is the most ancient, universal sport in history and an integral part of both the ancient and modern Olympics. This decision is an abomination.
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posted on
02/12/2013 8:21:23 AM PST
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
To: super7man
And don’t forget the pretty horsies. :)
To: TigerLikesRooster
One of the remaining “original” Olympic games sports... Sigh...
Will they drop track and field next?
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posted on
02/12/2013 8:27:08 AM PST
by
TheBattman
(Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
To: TigerLikesRooster
It’s all about TV ratings. Why would anyone want to watch Olympic baseball?
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