Theyre Cutting Wrestling From Future Olympics

[drhu22]

WTF?
Its one of the old events that is most associated with the original games.
My first thought is it is because its not as marketable, or glamorous as other sports. What are they thinking?

Beach volleyball anyone?

[Bobblehead]

It is being discussed in the Other Sports forum: http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=124650

[Bertuzzied]

Oh Nos! What will happen in the meantime and in between time?

[drhu22]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Oh Nos! What will happen in the meantime and in between time?

Granted alongside NK nukes and death by global cooking its pretty small stuff.
Sorry if i missed pertinent thread. Still WT.....

[handgroen]

really hard to believe that trampoline and not wrestling is an olympic event. are we sure this isn't as heard on "this is that" or something? This story has those guys written all over it.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by handgroen

really hard to believe that trampoline and not wrestling is an olympic event. are we sure this isn't as heard on "this is that" or something? This story has those guys written all over it.

Huh? This is from the IOC

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by drhu22

Beach volleyball anyone?

Yes please.

[drhu22]

Originally Posted by HOOT

Yes please.

Hmmm...
Case closed i guess.

[blankall]

An absolute shame. Cutting wrestling is like cutting the torch relay. Way too much tradition here.

Wrestling is also one of the sports where the atheletes are most on a level playing field. Every year you see atheletes from all sorts of different countries winning this event. They're considering cutting this event for "roller sports".

And once you zoom out from the extreme ass shot, the volleyball women are not nearly as good looking. These women are 6'3''. For Olympic tail, I'll stick to my Russian tennis stars, thank you very much.

/rant