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Edited by KingInTheNorth:
2/12/2013 7:03:14 PM
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Wrestling cut from the Olympic games in 2020.
[quote]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.[/quote]
[url=http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/ioc-cuts-wrestling-2020-olympics-125709336--oly.html]Article Yahoo Sports[/url]
As someone who wrestled from middle school all the way through college I am completely shocked by this. Wrestling has been part of the Olympics since the ancient Greek games, it makes no sense that the IOC would remove one of the original sports to replace with ridiculous things like: karate, squash, roller sports, sport climbing,wake boarding and wushu.
It is also said that it is "extremely unlikely" that it will be brought back anytime soon.
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Edited by Trollheim: 2/13/2013 6:38:16 AM[quote]You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today![/quote] TL;DR: Money. Olympics are less about people competing, and more about people watching people compete now. The Olympics are sponsored by McDonald's. It should already be apparent the downfall of competition.
