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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

IOC cuts wrestling from 2020 Olympics

Maggie Hendricks

In a shocking move, the International Olympic Committee voted to drop wrestling from its schedule for the 2020 Games. The unexpected decision was made via secret ballot during a Tuesday meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland where officials were discussing ways to "streamline" the Olympics.

Though many assumed modern pentathlon would get the boot, the committee instead decided to eliminate wrestling, which has roots in the ancient Greece games and has been a part of every modern Olympics since they began in 1896. The vote was completed over several rounds and the final totals were not released to the public.

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KEYWORDS: ioc; olympics; rasslin; wrestling
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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.
1 posted on 02/12/2013 7:39:22 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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But trans-gender naked badminton is still in!
2 posted on 02/12/2013 7:42:44 AM PST by yobid (Catastrophic failure is the only solution)
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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.


3 posted on 02/12/2013 7:44:50 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Odd..would’ve thought the IOC would be very approving of lot’sa half-naked, sweaty, man-on-man contact.


4 posted on 02/12/2013 7:47:49 AM PST by moovova
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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.


5 posted on 02/12/2013 7:48:34 AM PST by super7man
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To: Neoliberalnot

Dear Lord, please let Dan Gable be on duty at Heaven’s Gate when these IOC members die!!


6 posted on 02/12/2013 7:51:00 AM PST by King Hawk
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Women’s Curling is undoubtedly the most demanding sport on the agenda ~


7 posted on 02/12/2013 7:58:19 AM PST by muawiyah
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Greco-Roman Wrestling to be replaced by Pole Dancing.


8 posted on 02/12/2013 8:03:20 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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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.


9 posted on 02/12/2013 8:04:36 AM PST by discostu (Not just another moon faced assassin of joy.)
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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!


10 posted on 02/12/2013 8:05:09 AM PST by Kevin in California
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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!

11 posted on 02/12/2013 8:08:45 AM PST by rochester_veteran ( http://RochesterConservative.com/forums)
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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???

12 posted on 02/12/2013 8:08:53 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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Great...now there might be room in the venue for Transgender sports.


13 posted on 02/12/2013 8:14:44 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I’m guessing the worldwide wrestling organization hasn’t been paying bribes at a high enough level.


14 posted on 02/12/2013 8:16:12 AM PST by SeaHawkFan
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we can thank the title ix fiasco.


15 posted on 02/12/2013 8:20:31 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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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.

16 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)
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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.

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.

17 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!)
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To: super7man

And don’t forget the pretty horsies. :)


18 posted on 02/12/2013 8:24:45 AM PST by GSD Lover
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To: TigerLikesRooster

One of the remaining “original” Olympic games sports... Sigh...

Will they drop track and field next?


19 posted on 02/12/2013 8:27:08 AM PST by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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It’s all about TV ratings. Why would anyone want to watch Olympic baseball?


20 posted on 02/12/2013 8:32:45 AM PST by SeaHawkFan
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