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IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympics

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Feb 12, 2013 6:55 AM
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/11/3228038/ioc-set-to-cut-1-sport-from-program.html

This is just sickening. Synchronized swimming, trampoline, the modern pentathlon and equestrian are still involved with the Olympics over one off the oldest Olympic sports? The IOC board members can go to hell.
Feb 12, 2013 6:55am
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Feb 12, 2013 6:57 AM
Wow. Retarded.
Feb 12, 2013 6:57am
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Feb 12, 2013 7:17 AM
Man I was sick to my stomach when I saw this on the morning news at 6 am at one of ky stops on ky route! I can't believe this. ***** a$$ basketball gets tovstay and the other sports listed above but one of the oldest sports in the world and one with the most glory has to go. Sickening! The devil is on a rampage now! Watch out
Feb 12, 2013 7:17am
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Feb 12, 2013 7:21 AM
I'm not one to cuss, but this stinks.
Feb 12, 2013 7:21am
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Bitterrunner-up

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Feb 12, 2013 8:02 AM
This is an awful thing for our sport. If it ends up happening I will be crushed. I posted this on Yappi as well:

This sport has been a huge part of my life since I was eight years old. It taught me lessons about self discipline and self reliance, about perseverance and responsibility. It's the reason I went to college. It's made me a better teacher, husband and father. You're not going to find too many people that love the sport more than me.

That being said, bashing other sports isn't the answer. The people who make the Olympic teams in some of the sports being trashed above are fulfilling life-long dreams and their appearance at the Olympics is the culmination of a life's work. Don't belittle their efforts or their sports because you don't understand them or ther culture. That's what people do to wrestling and we hate it.
Feb 12, 2013 8:02am
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Feb 12, 2013 8:06 AM
Of all the sports that should not be cut i would think it would be wrestling which in my understanding is one of the oldest competitve sports and surely one of the oldest in the olympics smh
certainly wrestling should be in before taekwondo.
Feb 12, 2013 8:06am
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Shoot and Sprawl

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Feb 12, 2013 8:17 AM
Simply unbelievable that the I.O.C. would turn its back on their own history.
We as a community must do a better job of marketing our sport to the masses and becoming commercially viable.
Feb 12, 2013 8:17am
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Dust_E_Roads

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Feb 12, 2013 8:23 AM
Wrestling put on par with wakeboarding and "roller sports"?!?! Really? Really?
Feb 12, 2013 8:23am
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Feb 12, 2013 8:40 AM
Well one could always start a petition - the wrestling community cannot let this happen or we will be having more and more discussions about Canoeing and Synchronized Tactical Diving in the near future.
Feb 12, 2013 8:40am
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Feb 12, 2013 8:47 AM
Bitterrunner-up;1387346 wrote:This is an awful thing for our sport. If it ends up happening I will be crushed. I posted this on Yappi as well:

This sport has been a huge part of my life since I was eight years old. It taught me lessons about self discipline and self reliance, about perseverance and responsibility. It's the reason I went to college. It's made me a better teacher, husband and father. You're not going to find too many people that love the sport more than me.

That being said, bashing other sports isn't the answer. The people who make the Olympic teams in some of the sports being trashed above are fulfilling life-long dreams and their appearance at the Olympics is the culmination of a life's work. Don't belittle their efforts or their sports because you don't understand them or ther culture. That's what people do to wrestling and we hate it.
This^^
Feb 12, 2013 8:47am
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Feb 12, 2013 8:53 AM
Bitter/Shoot and Sprawl, very good posts.

This will have a rippling effect. College programs have been saved in the past primarily because wrestling is "an olympic sport". Now we are even more defenseless against Title IX cuts than ever before. IOC will add a sport to replace wrestling as one of 25 "core" sports. Baseball/Softball, Rugby and Golf reportedly being considered.
Feb 12, 2013 8:53am
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Dust_E_Roads

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Feb 12, 2013 9:06 AM
Bitterrunner-up;1387346 wrote:That being said, bashing other sports isn't the answer. The people who make the Olympic teams in some of the sports being trashed above are fulfilling life-long dreams and their appearance at the Olympics is the culmination of a life's work. Don't belittle their efforts or their sports because you don't understand them or ther culture. That's what people do to wrestling and we hate it.
I appreciate your reasoned and tempered respoonse. I will, however, disagree with you on a not insignificant item.

"Wakeboarders" and "Roller-skaters" could not possibly have had "life long dreams" of competing for Olympic glory because no rational person could have ever believed that these would become Olympic sports. I will not now, nor ever, put "wakeboarding" or "rollerblading" on par with a wrestling. This isn't due to any failure to understand or appreciate their "sports". Let them have the X games.
Feb 12, 2013 9:06am
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Feb 12, 2013 9:09 AM
Not familiar with international law, but is there a chance that FILA lawyers up and appeals this moronic decision?
Feb 12, 2013 9:09am
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Feb 12, 2013 9:53 AM
The IOC can go find themselves. This is absolutely asinine.
Feb 12, 2013 9:53am
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Feb 12, 2013 9:55 AM
Wrestling will surely be petitioned to be the "1" sport added back in 2020 competing against the likes of baseball/softball, taekwondo, and some of the other above metioned "sports". Let's hope the wrestling community bans together to make sure wrestling gets that spot; hard to imagine the Olympics not having one of its original events?!! :(
Feb 12, 2013 9:55am
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Feb 12, 2013 10:03 AM
This is sickening!
Feb 12, 2013 10:03am
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Feb 12, 2013 10:10 AM
Although heartbreaking on many levels, this is mere adversity. As I sit here thinking about this, and how utterly devastating it could be, I find comfort in this reality: This news, this decision, was put in the face of WRESTLERS. And wrestlers will act exactly like they know how. The wrestling community and its leaders will put into practice exactly what we preach to our young wrestlers everyday: wrestling better prepares us to handle adversity in life. There are some great wrestling leaders out there, men and women, in positions to change this decision, or, if it cannot be changed, they will offer solutions that will overcome it in a way that will actually improve our sport. Now seems to be the time where wrestlers will do what they do: they will issue the beat-down on those making this decision...not with their bodies an brawn, but rather with that iron will, with their minds, their willingness to prepare, and outwork their opponents.
Feb 12, 2013 10:10am
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Feb 12, 2013 10:10 AM
Brutal. An Olympic original event being cut like this. A sport with international appeal. It isn't like the U.S. has dominated it. I could understand if we did since everyone in the world now hates us. That is a different discussion though.

Wrestling is a sport that should always be in the olympics. Next I guess they will cut the Marathon.
Feb 12, 2013 10:10am
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Feb 12, 2013 10:19 AM
Wow unbelievable!
Not only an original olympic sport but THE oldest known sport in this planet's history.

Ballroom dancing????
Feb 12, 2013 10:19am
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Feb 12, 2013 10:21 AM
Be sure to voice your displeasure to the USOC... [email protected]
Feb 12, 2013 10:21am
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Feb 12, 2013 10:40 AM
Dust_E_Roads;1387399 wrote:I appreciate your reasoned and tempered respoonse. I will, however, disagree with you on a not insignificant item.

"Wakeboarders" and "Roller-skaters" could not possibly have had "life long dreams" of competing for Olympic glory because no rational person could have ever believed that these would become Olympic sports. I will not now, nor ever, put "wakeboarding" or "rollerblading" on par with a wrestling. This isn't due to any failure to understand or appreciate their "sports". Let them have the X games.
While I agree that wakeboarders and roller skaters probably don't have life-long Olympic dreams, too often we act as if other sports are lesser than ours. Those sports have a culture all their own that is just as important to their participants as our culture is to us. That's the point I was trying to make.

The point HorseShoe makes is a good one. Wrestlers are leaders and people who get things done in all walks of life. I'd like to hear Congressmen Jim Jordan's take on this subject.
Feb 12, 2013 10:40am
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Feb 12, 2013 10:49 AM
My only thought is that MMA could see a brighter future and wrestlers have an avenue to make money with their craft. However I am just so ticked off about this news!
Feb 12, 2013 10:49am
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Feb 12, 2013 10:52 AM
Very horrible and moronic decision by the IOC.

Which is about the same as saying that the sun rose today, but it's still disgusting.
Feb 12, 2013 10:52am
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Feb 12, 2013 5:15 PM
Bitterrunner-up;1387346 wrote:.........That being said, bashing other sports isn't the answer. The people who make the Olympic teams in some of the sports being trashed above are fulfilling life-long dreams and their appearance at the Olympics is the culmination of a life's work. Don't belittle their efforts or their sports because you don't understand them or ther culture. That's what people do to wrestling and we hate it.
Very well put - we shouldn't bash the other sports - they are just as important to those athletes and fans as wrestling is to us. We should however bash the IOC as they are allowing something other than tradition and history steer the Olympics - my guess is that something is "ratings".

I am already seeing tweets from "WrestlingBelongs2020" and I'm sure there will be more petitions, websites etc. coming out that will provide us with a means of being heard. We (Wrestling fans, parents, coaches, athletes etc.) can't sit by and let this happen - every chance we get to be heard - through petitions, twitter, whatever, we need to speak up and keep speaking up! This is totally unacceptable!

And yes - Wrestling I believe is one of the oldest sports - as my signature line attests.
Feb 12, 2013 5:15pm
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Feb 12, 2013 5:40 PM
Change of period duration every 8-10 years. Significant rules changes every 2-3. The ball grab to determine choice. Referees decisions influenced by politics. The "clinch" ot. You can't gut wrench repeatedly...oh, no wait you can...oh, no wait, you can if you do something else first. These and other foolish actions by FILA over the past 30 years have eroded the worldwide interest of wrestling and the ability (or willingness) of the casual fan to pay attention or to even care. Can you imagine if basketball or hockey made such drastic changes? They might be gone from the olympics too. All of that being said, if there is no more wrestling in the olympics, I will never watch them again, summer or winter.
Feb 12, 2013 5:40pm