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Wrestling Fans Keep your fingers crossed (IOC decision)
IOC is meeting on 29th of May to decide if wrestling will continue to be an olympic sports in 2020. Wrestling will have to fight against seven other sports (Squash, wakeboarding, rock climbing, Wushu, speed skating, softball and Karate) to win its berth for the Olympics.
Some proposed changes which may take place are 2 three min rounds instead of 3 two min rounds and cumulative points system instead of best of 2 rounds. Also number of competitors to be reduced 16/weight class and halving the number of officials thereby limiting size. Eliminating one weight class each in Men's freestyle and Greco Roman in favour of two more for freestyle women. (between 50-74, female heavyweight division desperately needs to go higher why restrict to 74 kg only ) Some unconfirmed rumours suggest that female competitors may even get hello kitty shorts instead of singlets as their costume. So in conclusion wrestling fans keep your fingers crossed and contribute as much as you can to keep wrestling an olympic sports. Participate in every web poll on this issue and let IOC know that there is support for this sport. Best Wishes to FILA for 29th May Last edited by sheehan; 22-May-13 at 14:51. |
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Re: Wrestling Fans Keep your fingers crossed (IOC decision)
Moved to ''Wrestling & Fighting Discussion & Requests''.
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Re: Wrestling Fans Keep your fingers crossed (IOC decision)
honestly, it's a crap olympic sport, no wonder not many watch it
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Re: Wrestling Fans Keep your fingers crossed (IOC decision)
Do you mean wrestling or modern pentathlon? How many people watch modern pentathlon, or even know what it is?
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Re: Wrestling Fans Keep your fingers crossed (IOC decision)
Wrestling is probably the oldest sports known to mankind and one of the most inexpensive and basic athletic activities. Considering that last olympics was played in a country where wrestling is almost non existent 96% attendance is more then gr8. In US, any of the soviet bloc nation and most other parts of the world it enjoys a huge popularity and is also national sports of many countries. Sports like modern pentathalon deserves their place in history books not in 21st century olympics.
Hope IOC rectifies their mistake. But shorts for female competitors !!! Seriously I love the snug Singlets But then I am such a pervert |
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Re: Wrestling Fans Keep your fingers crossed (IOC decision)
What about bikinis for female competitors? That would raise the attendance rates!
They are permitted now in beach wrestling, you know. |
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Re: Wrestling Fans Keep your fingers crossed (IOC decision)
But that would affect the participation of athletes in some conservative/traditional countries like India, Mongolia etc and also that would mean that the Islamic world will never open upto women wrestling which is one of the pre condition of the sport surviving in the olympics. Female wrestling has started in some of them like Turkey, Bangladesh, Egypt and some more like Pakistan, Iran may open it up for females.
I hope they keep the singlets perhaps make them more glossy/colourful aka judo |
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Re: Wrestling Fans Keep your fingers crossed (IOC decision)
So is wrestling.
Reason presumably is imcompetence of FILA? |
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