Casper Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/12/ioc-drops-wrestling-from-2020-olympics/related/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 What the hell this world coming to? wrestling is the Olympics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWW$HEEET Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 whats next, track? i suppose badminton was just too badass to remove. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRMN8TR Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 will now be thrown in against the other seven sports vying for a single spot in the 2020 Games schedule: baseball/softball, squash, wushu, roller sports, karate, sport climbing, and wakeboardingSeriously, squash? And wushu, wtf is that? Wakeboarding? What are they trying to do, turn the Olympics into the X-Games?Can anyone honestly tell me what wushu is without googling it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapesmuggler27 Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 Seriously, squash? And wushu, wtf is that? Wakeboarding? What are they trying to do, turn the Olympics into the X-Games?Can anyone honestly tell me what wushu is without googling it?Wushu is what john does for free in his trailer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swingset Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 The Olympics have been heading towards stupidity for a long time. This just kind of exemplifies what they're doing wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helmutt Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Sad that a founding sport is being abolished from their program. Where would the Olympics be without fierce Greco Roman man hugging? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snot Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 No one can pass the drug test 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheech Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 whats next, track? i suppose badminton was just too badass to remove.You will have an entire subcontinent pissed off if you attempt to pull badminton. China/Korea(s)/SE Asia takes that shit SERIOUSLY.Still, I'm not one to hold on to tradition for tradition's sake, but I really can't come up with a convincing reason to eliminate a sport that's been with the Olympics since the original. I heard on NPR that the pentathlon was also rumored to be on the block, but it just so happens that one of the guys on the IOC board that voted for wrestling had a kid who was a pentathlete, so that wasn't going to happen. In the board that voted for the removal, there was not a single American, and not a single country that won gold in that event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baptizo Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??? Wrestling has been a staple of sports and the Olympics since the beginning. Heck, I wrestled in JR HS and have always loved the sport. Stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnone Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Wish it weren't true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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