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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1896?! Heck, it goes back to the 5th century BC!
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
But, gymnastic dancing is a sport?
No, but ping pong and canoeing supposedly are!
Cut Olympic wrestling but keep horse dancing/dressage. F the IOC!
But Badminton, dancing, ping-pong (uh “table tennis”) and the abomination called “rhythmic gymnastics” are “sports.”
What about pocket billiards?
Wrestling is a queer activity.
“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.
table tennis? They kept ping-pong as an olympic sport but phased out wrestling?
“Wrestling is a queer activity.”
Then you must have spent years and years wrestling?
badminton?
basketball?
Give me a break.
Combine shooting and archery with dressage.
Call it the Cavalry.
Some don't.
I'm in the latter group.
“Wrestling is a queer activity.”
So do you have homosexual thoughts often when watching wrestling?
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.
Nonsense.
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