I'm telling you, it is Mitt Romney's fault. He runs the dancing horsey world.

Rowdy Roddy Piper better get his shit together for 2016. He'll be too old for 2024.

Its all over the news. Russia and India are appealing it which is completely unprecedented, the IOC president is meeting with FILA, also completely unprecedented, they are now back-peddling talking about how maybe it wont be just one sport recommended to add to the other 25, but as many as 3.

Its clear by simple common sense that wrestling will obviously be saved, I don't need a link.

I'd even go so far as to say that it was obvious to anyone who was paying attention that wrestling probably wouldn't be cut like in my post from yesterday, the media just just lazily relied on what happened to baseball when they said it was over for wrestling.

They still have rhythmic gymnastics where women wave ribbons around. So we got that.

I blame the X-games.

Interesting. I just read a story where 4 years ago one of the leaders of the US Olympic Committee was meeting with the IOC executive board to discuss why the Chicago bid failed, and he just happened to learn that wrestling was possibly in trouble. He immediately alerted FILA that they needed to get to work on wining and dining the IOC's executive board, but he was completely ignored.

Ratings are not down. The stupid shit they force you to watch is down. Thete should be multiple channels showing every sport live then recapped. Hell create extra channels for it. All the cool shit is never shown.

Thats good. It is an original sport. Thousands of years oldd and still relevant.

Watch them replace it with MMA fighting. Only reason it would make sense. Otherwise WTF

Both FILA and the IOC are composed of some of the most moronic people on this planet. ****, FILA completely ****ed over Kolat.

Fair enough. I was hopeful when learning of the IOC meeting. It's also nice to have Russians, Indians, and Iranians on your side. Who knows...might shake things up a bit with FILA and things turn for the better.

FILA needs to be burned to the ****ing ground.

The USOC finally weighed in today with a sort of measured response disagreeing with the decision. Makes sense for us to not be first or too angry, to avoid having a situation where European OC's reflexively go against wrestling because the Americans are pissed. Now that Russia, Iran, and India are all howling (and Greece too, apparently) its probably safe for us to say something.

pretty much.

Ball grabs :facepalm:

Badminton is still though right? ( wipes brow as a sign of relief)