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In the discussion thread: IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympics [View all]

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Tue Feb 12, 2013, 01:08 PM

Dyedinthewoolliberal (6,463 posts)

19. Wrestling is the original Olympic sport!

Or close to it anyhow...........

what are they thinking?

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82 replies	Author	Time	Post
IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympics [View all]	Exultant Democracy	Feb 2013	OP
Uh, I thought this was a joke until I checked.....	Burma Jones	Feb 2013	#1
I thought it was a joke too. Wrestling dropped in favor of modern pentathlon sounds like the Onion.	Exultant Democracy	Feb 2013	#7
yes, lets take out an original sport from the original olympics...	actslikeacarrot	Feb 2013	#2
Well, the sheep skull-toss was never instituted in the contemporary games, either.	LanternWaste	Feb 2013	#78
Wow.	HooptieWagon	Feb 2013	#3
Because....	Jeff In Milwaukee	Feb 2013	#5
+1000	Rowdyboy	Feb 2013	#8
Indeed! +1 eom	Purveyor	Feb 2013	#13
Don't forget Olympic Fucking Beach Volleyball	KansDem	Feb 2013	#14
I would agree except Beach Volleyball is one of their most popular events.	Renew Deal	Feb 2013	#42
Or the Standing Broad Jump or Standing High Jump...	KansDem	Feb 2013	#45
You take the T+A out of beach volleyball, and see what kind of ratings it pulls...	Blue_Tires	Feb 2013	#51
Yea, there's some odd ones.	HooptieWagon	Feb 2013	#17
Sychronized Swimming	Jeff In Milwaukee	Feb 2013	#26
Olympic walking came from pedestrianism	AngryAmish	Feb 2013	#35
And Trampoline	tridim	Feb 2013	#52
The athletes aren't telegenic enough for the broadcast audience, pretty much.	Posteritatis	Feb 2013	#54
I can think of no more direct connection to the original first Olympic games	NBachers	Feb 2013	#4
Naked Wrestling (nt)	Jeff In Milwaukee	Feb 2013	#6
Naked boxing, too.	kentauros	Feb 2013	#10
Defintely popular in the ratings! (nt)	Jeff In Milwaukee	Feb 2013	#11
Well, if it was only naked men,	Art_from_Ark	Feb 2013	#69
What about dressage? I've heard that Rafalca is an ancient Greek term for	aint_no_life_nowhere	Feb 2013	#21
Mixed martial arts were from the first olympics	AngryAmish	Feb 2013	#36
Breaking: IOC announces it is dropping sports from the Olympics	Jeff In Milwaukee	Feb 2013	#9
LOL, just turn it into a reality TV show.	HooptieWagon	Feb 2013	#18
The Real Housewives of Sparta (nt)	Jeff In Milwaukee	Feb 2013	#24
Did you write that yourself?	Occulus	Feb 2013	#41
blush	Jeff In Milwaukee	Feb 2013	#48
Every athlete profiled either had a dire disease or lost a loved one recently....	radhika	Feb 2013	#65
I don't like wrestling but this does seem absurd.	Gidney N Cloyd	Feb 2013	#12
But I'm sure dressage will still be around for Ann to send her horse to.	okwmember	Feb 2013	#15
I don't really care for it, but Dressage is legit.	HooptieWagon	Feb 2013	#20
Television has ruined every sport it has touched. Ruined.	Ikonoklast	Feb 2013	#16
Wrestling is the original Olympic sport!	Dyedinthewoolliberal	Feb 2013	#19
But boxing remains?	hedgehog	Feb 2013	#22
Having been pressured into taking my son to a few WWE events,	Nye Bevan	Feb 2013	#23
WWE is not 'wrestling'... eom	Purveyor	Feb 2013	#27
Night and day difference	HooptieWagon	Feb 2013	#29
Not the same	vdogg	Feb 2013	#30
You should write for the Onion. nt	NoGOPZone	Feb 2013	#32
That isn't wrestling -- good grief	obamanut2012	Feb 2013	#58
I guess that explains why The Undertaker has never won an Olympic Gold (nt)	Nye Bevan	Feb 2013	#63
ohhhhhh yessssss	d_b	Feb 2013	#66
You are joking ...right? nt	Drahthaardogs	Feb 2013	#79
Stupid decision.	SwissTony	Feb 2013	#25
Agreed	AngryAmish	Feb 2013	#37
That's why I think golf and tennis should be dropped, too	obamanut2012	Feb 2013	#59
Golf, tennis and basketball with millionaires competing	UnrepentantLiberal	Feb 2013	#75
im pissed at the cheating of the italians. cant believe their defenders get away with it.	loli phabay	Feb 2013	#74
Are you talking about Celtic v Juve?	SwissTony	Feb 2013	#76
lol the bully wee. im a Tim for my sins. still didnt expect to get this far	loli phabay	Feb 2013	#77
And somewhere Gilgamesh is weeping...	FailureToCommunicate	Feb 2013	#28
Taekwondo	oberle	Feb 2013	#31
The modern pentathlon isn't a 'replacement'	NoGOPZone	Feb 2013	#33
Golf and rugby are teh replacement sports	obamanut2012	Feb 2013	#60
gtfo	d_b	Feb 2013	#34
Trampoline!	Renew Deal	Feb 2013	#43
Trampoline and rhythmic gymnastics need to go	obamanut2012	Feb 2013	#61
Whew...i thought they might drop Golf	Lochloosa	Feb 2013	#38
I was worried too.	timdog44	Feb 2013	#46
to be fair, modern pentathalon was one of the original olympic events..	frylock	Feb 2013	#39
I would say that both the Greeks and the Roman are familiar with it.	Jeff In Milwaukee	Feb 2013	#49
badminton is the sport of GODS!!1	frylock	Feb 2013	#50
Lesser gods, perhaps....	Jeff In Milwaukee	Feb 2013	#53
Modern pentathalon first appeared in 1912 (Stockholm)	Angleae	Feb 2013	#67
At least we still have women's beach volleyball	indie9197	Feb 2013	#40
They have to make room for sport climbing and wakeboarding. nt	eppur_se_muova	Feb 2013	#47
70+ countries field Olympic teams in wrestling	obamanut2012	Feb 2013	#62
petition here	d_b	Feb 2013	#44
And yet beach volleyball, synchronized swimming, and equestrianism	rachel1	Feb 2013	#55
IOC rhymes with NAZI...	Octafish	Feb 2013	#56
Golf in, wrestling out, secret votes and hidden bribes	obamanut2012	Feb 2013	#57
The IOC no longer cares about amateur sports	Blasphemer	Feb 2013	#64
They've admitted this years ago when they justified dropping baseball.	Angleae	Feb 2013	#68
We will have soon Computer mouse control.	MrYikes	Feb 2013	#70
That was the only sport I was any good at.	Ash_F	Feb 2013	#71
"Modern Pentathlon" was intended for those people who would have done the Pentathlon in Ancient times	happyslug	Feb 2013	#73
Thanks. So I was somewhat right.	Ash_F	Feb 2013	#82
Me too. In 8th grade I was uncoordinated and could never catch or hit a ball.	slackmaster	Feb 2013	#81
To those clamoring for the removal of racewalking from the Olympics	NoGOPZone	Feb 2013	#72
Time to get rid of the Olympics	LiberalFighter	Feb 2013	#80

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