IOC votes to get rid of Olympic wrestling for 2020

[PhillyGirl]

The International Olympic Committee voted today to drop wrestling from the Summer Games for 2020. Final decision will be made in May.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/s...op-wrestling-in-2020.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Is anyone else saddened/disappointed by this? Sure, wrestling is not as widely watched as swimming, for example, but along with track and field events it's one of the classic Olympic sports.

 

[doemasters]

Not good at all, I am sure we have some other events that could have been cut before this one

 

[Hardkore]

http://www.olympic.org/sports

Of all they have listed for the summer games, I would rather see them get rid of Curling.

They're getting rid of wrestling but keeping Judo,Taekwondo, and Boxing?

 

[Hardkore]

Just came across this,they are dropping it to include Golf.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/olympi...wrestling-its-spot-in-olympics-201325406.html

 

[PhillyGirl]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1270844,00.html

Check this out. Apparently the Olympics used to have the tug of war, motor boating, cricket, club swinging, solo synchronized swimming, tumbling, rope climb, live pigeon shooting, pistol dueling (AWESOME, but with dummies), and long jump for horses.

Does anyone else remember when they did 'exposition'/'demonstration' Olympic events? Like I distinctly remember seeing footage of guys on motorbikes in a cage of some sort.

Found this list on wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonstration_sport

I was cracking up reading some of these. Kite flying? Military patrol? Roller hockey? I think we should try tether-ball and 4-square, I'm kind of a boss at both.