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OT: Wrestling to be dropped from Olympics in 2020
Awful decision by the IOC. How they decided dressage was worthy of continued inclusion but wrestling wasn't is beyond me.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-f...--oly.html
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02-12-2013 12:30 PM
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RE: OT: Wrestling to be dropped from Olympics in 2020
Rich Bender, USA Wrestling Executive Director, responds to the news:
http://themat.com/section.php?section_id...leID=26039
02-12-2013 03:14 PM
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RE: OT: Wrestling to be dropped from Olympics in 2020
It is terrible. How can one of the original sports in the event be removed? I've always thought the IOC was pretty corrupt.
02-12-2013 07:21 PM
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