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Originally Posted by icarus
Greco-Roman wrestling-meh, but Freestyle Wrestling is quite entertaining. I was fortunate to watch Tonya Verbeek compete for Canada live at the London Olympics last year and it was a great spectacle once you know the rules (which are simple). Also it has a truly global participation. I was sitting near fans from Colombia, Mongolia and North Korea (I was tempted to try to trade my Canada swag for a North Korea jacket but I didn't want the other guy to get incarcerated).
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That's the thing I don't understand. The sport is still popular around the world and they just added women to the programme which is not easy, just ask the women ski jumpers.