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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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Don't cut the equestrian section, cut FIELD HOCKEY.
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2 RepliesThey just need to revamp it more WWE style.
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2 RepliesAll of the core sports should stay intact. Why couldn't they have gotten rid of Horse Prancing?
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Wrestling is the worst sport at the Olympics. It will not be missed.
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1 ReplyEdited by Ason Unique: 2/13/2013 4:42:46 PM[quote]ridiculous things like: karate, squash, roller sports, sport climbing,wake boarding and wushu.[/quote] Karate and wushu are NOT ridiculous. Or at least no more ridiculous than grown, sweaty men writhing about on the floor in an apparent contest to see who can sodomise who first.
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1 ReplyThere's 7 years for them to figure out why this is a stupid idea, don't worry.
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Edited by Symmetry: 2/13/2013 6:59:32 AMThe IOC is complete crap. I kind of figured this out after a young woman from South Korea got robbed during the Fencing Semi-Finals. Why cut wrestling when you can cut horse back riding?
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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.
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1 ReplyWrestling is like, the original olympic sport. I'm confused
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3 RepliesThey added golf, and took out wrestling... What the -blam!- is so Olympic about golf?
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Lets get rid of the most manly sport in the olimpics. God wtf is wrong with those people.
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It seems odd that the IOC would cut such a traditionally Olympic sport. But then again, the IOC has a history of perplexing decisions.
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2 Repliesyahoo? i seriously doubt this
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Not really sure why they're getting rid of wrestling when they have a bunch of fringe "sports" like roller skating.
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9 RepliesThey need american football in the olympics.
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1 ReplyI'll watch the Olympics when pole dancing becomes an Olympic event.
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Edited by HurtfulTurkey: 2/12/2013 6:19:17 PMThe decision to remove wrestling, not the sport. I can't really think of anything that epitomizes the origins of the Olympics than wrestling. What an odd decision.
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Wow. That'd be like taking away the torch lighting ceremony, wrestling is a huge part of olympic competition.
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Wrestling has been a part of the Olympics for well over a thousand years (since it was made)
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2 Repliesis curling an olympic sport?
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Thats pretty crazy considering they have other "sports" like ping pong and BS like that
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1 ReplyI agree. The IOC is a bunch of dick sucking jizz garglers.
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Wow that's stupid, wasn't wrestling apart of the original olympics? and yet they'll keep trampoline bouncing, good lord.
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Are they getting rid of [i]wrestling[/i] or are they getting rid of [i]wrastling[/i]. Because [i]wrestling[/i] is not real whereas [i]wrastling[/i] is.
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...wow.
