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International Olympic Committee Cuts Wrestling from 2020 Olympics
This is stupid if you ask me. 90% of the people on here probably don't care. But you have an event where people ride around on horses telling them to do stupid shit (Dressing) and you cut wrestling?
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02-12-2013, 08:52 AM | #2 |
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I don't really watch much of the wrestling but I think it is a terrible decision. It is a good bridge to the past Olympics and still a valid sport today. To see it lumped in with wakeboarding and sport climbing and whatever washu is dumb.
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02-12-2013, 08:54 AM | #3 |
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I saw a few tweets saying that this is basically China pushing their weight around because they suck at wrestling. They're doing what they can to get ahead in the medal count. The US has 124 medals in this sport since 1896.
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02-12-2013, 09:01 AM | #4 |
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Interesting...is it because not enough countries participate anymore? TV ratings for it are down? Heck, when they broadcast the games, you can barely find it. They put it on CNBC at Midnight.
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THIS ****ING SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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02-12-2013, 09:03 AM | #6 |
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It came down to this or Penthathlon apparently. If it was because of countries that participate, well wrestling had 71 countries participate in London. Pentathlon: 26.
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02-12-2013, 09:04 AM | #7 |
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Hard to believe they cut this over Equestrian?? Does the horse get the medal or the rider?
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This will no doubt hurt the sport, still have the NCAA tourny but this sucks. Hurts the Russian wrestlers more, now they have nothing but FILA.
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This is one of the oldest sports in the entire world. The Olympics are becoming nothing more than a money-making industry than for the glory of sport- which basically is a hypocripsy of the true Olympian spirit.
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02-12-2013, 09:17 AM | #10 |
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Come on man, Mitt Romney can't relate.
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One less reason to waste any time watching the Olympics.
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Take heart, as long as the cameras can keep showing chicks in tight bikinis sporting a wedgy sand volleyball will remain an Olympic sport.
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02-12-2013, 09:32 AM | #13 |
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W.T.F?
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02-12-2013, 09:36 AM | #14 |
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This.
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Are they at least going to add another sport, like the weight lifters throwing the gymnasts for distance?
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