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Wrestling removed from the 2020 Olympics

dave6660dave6660 Member UncommonPosts: 2,699
in Off-Topic Discussion

Of all the events to get rid of, wrestling?  It has a very long history and is practiced in some form in most of the world.

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a big fan of combat sports.

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
-- Herman Melville

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  • ZindaihasZindaihas Member UncommonPosts: 3,662

    This is an outrage.  I'm a huge wrestling fan.  Dan Wetzel wrote an article saying that the sport goes back to the 1896 Olympics (the first modern games).  But it truth, it's much older than that.  Wrestling was one of the events the ancient Greeks participated in dating all the way back to the first Olympics ever in 776 B.C.

    Why don't they just drop Track & Field while they're at it?

  • CleffyCleffy Member RarePosts: 6,414
    The original olympic sports were Foot races, Long Jump, Javelin throwing, Discus throwing, Boxing, Wrestling, and Equestrian events.  It would be kind of wierd to remove one of these.  Also to my knowledge the Olympics were more about the individual athlete than the team.
  • RoxtarrRoxtarr Member CommonPosts: 1,122
    I'm really surprised they did this considering the history of the sport in the olympics.  I'm guessing it's a money thing.  Maybe too many people attend the events and get mad because nobody got hit with a chair or was slammed into the turnbuckle.  It's sad, considering the Olympics is the pinnacle of the sport. 

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  • tixylixtixylix Member UncommonPosts: 1,288
    It's just an excuse for gays to rub up against each other, not even proper wrestling. If it was like WWF with The Undertaker choke slamming Mankind off a steel cage, then I'd want it!
  • BarrikorBarrikor Member UncommonPosts: 373

    We might not be able to call it the "Olympics" any more...


    They remove longstanding sports and add new sports that are still in their infancy. They just added BMX in 2008, and now they're thinking about removing road & track cycling which they've had since 1896.


    Face it, nowadays the Olympics is just a form of entertainment, adding new fads will hook the audience because whatever's new is exciting, basically "Monster of the Week" marketing. Anything that doesn't help the bottom-line will be dropped. They limit the amount of competitions that can be televised by making "exclusive deals" with TV networks in different countries and then try to smash the events into as small a time-frame as possible, with as many events as they can handle happening at the same time. Their exclusive deals with TV networks limit the information that goes to the public, you can't cheer for your favorites as they go up the ladder and advance, in most sports you're left with only the final match with is broadcast hours after it happened, if you miss it then the next day you're left with a quick re-cap clip that starts with the announcer saying "Watch how XXXXXXX beats Canada for the gold".


    Originally posted by tixylix
    It's just an excuse for gays to rub up against each other, not even proper wrestling. If it was like WWF with The Undertaker choke slamming Mankind off a steel cage, then I'd want it!


    I seriously hope you're just trolling.

  • dave6660dave6660 Member UncommonPosts: 2,699
    Originally posted by Roxtarr
    I'm really surprised they did this considering the history of the sport in the olympics.  I'm guessing it's a money thing.  Maybe too many people attend the events and get mad because nobody got hit with a chair or was slammed into the turnbuckle.  It's sad, considering the Olympics is the pinnacle of the sport. 

    While I generally have a low opinion of human race's overall intelligence, I really hope when they watch olympic wrestling they're not expecting WWF style action.  I mean when they watch the judo competition are they expecting a Steven Seagal movie.

    “There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
    -- Herman Melville

  • rpg_gunnerrpg_gunner Member Posts: 80
    JUST WATCH WWE..... 
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