wrestling – Rob's blog https://www.topendsports.com/rob from Topend Sports Fri, 12 Mar 2021 05:23:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.6 39014565 Wrestling dumped from the Olympics https://www.topendsports.com/rob/major-events/olympic-games/wrestling-dropped-from-olympics/ Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:58:22 +0000 http://www.topendsports.com/rob/?p=980 The IOC has voted to drop wrestling from the list of core Olympic Games sports, a necessary step to make room for more relevant sports for today. Wrestling still has a chance to be on the program, though it will now join the seven shortlisted sports which are aiming for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic program: baseball/softball, karate, roller sports, sport climbing, squash, wakeboarding and wushu.

You can vote for which sport you think should be included in the Olympics. It is very unlikely that wrestling will be added back on the program, maybe something cool like climbing should be added. Dropping wrestling was a surprise to me, as it seemed like modern pentathlon was on the chopping block. There are a few other sports that should possibly be eliminated.

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Our poll of which Olympic sports should be dropped had equestrian as more unpopular than wrestling and modern pentathlon, and equestrian also topped our list of Least favourite Olympic sports.

The word from an IOC inside source indicated that wrestling was voted out from a final group that also included modern pentathlon, taekwondo and field hockey, which gives an idea of which sports may next be on the chopping block. It seems like there is a bit more culling to do.

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