No more Wrestling at the Olympics.

[Jeffg010]

How in da fuck did this happen. They voted out wrestling I don't get it.

http://news.yahoo.com/ioc-drops-wrestling-2020-olympics-111816483--oly.html

 

[bigrash]

What? That's weird that they would vote it out.

 

[Greenman]

Probably be replaced with cheer leading.

 

[waggy]

yeah it blows my mind. they leave in synchronized swimming and some of the other "sports" and take out wrestling.

WTF

 

[sourceninja]

Just remove judo and there will be no more reasons to watch the olympics.

 

[waggy]

htey claiming nobody watches it. I blame that on TV more then i do lack of interest in the sport.

I watched wrestling live over the internet.

ugh. disgusting situation.

 

[Nintendesert]

WTF. Isn't wrestling one of the oldest human sports and one of the original Olympic sports for the Greeks besides the marathon??

 

[Soundmanred]

WTF. Isn't wrestling one of the oldest human sports and one of the original Olympic sports for the Greeks besides the marathon??

Yes, but RATINGS!

 

[Baked]

I'm gonna start praying they put in pole dancing as a replacement.

 

[waggy]

Yes, but RATINGS!

yes and no.

Baseball had high ratings but was dominated by the US. it was removed.

i been reading about why they took wrestling away. the IOC claims it was rateings. many are saying its really the fact that non-core country's are dominating.

also they had to make room for new sports. rugby and golf are not included claimed one article.

either way its bullshit.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

yeah it blows my mind. they leave in synchronized swimming and some of the other "sports" and take out wrestling.

WTF

Karate has been pushing hard for inclusion. And as one of the candidate cities is Tokyo, if they win, do not be surprised to see karate win the slot. Wrestling is mostly a "superpower" sport, but there are great karateka all over the planet. And of course the Japanese would have a serious home field advantage if the games are held there. Baseball would suit them well too. Turkey and Spain have strong karate bases too.

 

[crashtestdummy]

yes and no.

Baseball had high ratings but was dominated by the US. it was removed.

i been reading about why they took wrestling away. the IOC claims it was rateings. many are saying its really the fact that non-core country's are dominating.

also they had to make room for new sports. rugby and golf are not included claimed one article.

either way its bullshit.

I feel like all those arguments could be made even more strongly about the modern pentathlon. Why didn't they get rid of that instead?

 

[zokudu]

Wrestling will now join seven other sports in applying for inclusion in 2020. The others are a combined bid from baseball and softball, karate, squash, roller sports, sport climbing, wakeboarding and wushu

Wrestling should beat out most of these handily. It is kind of stupid it was removed in the first place though.

 

[klinc]

Good riddens. Now get rid of Basketball as well. No freebies to the USA.

 

[sourceninja]

Karate has been pushing hard for inclusion. And as one of the candidate cities is Tokyo, if they win, do not be surprised to see karate win the slot. Wrestling is mostly a "superpower" sport, but there are great karateka all over the planet. And of course the Japanese would have a serious home field advantage if the games are held there. Baseball would suit them well too. Turkey and Spain have strong karate bases too.

I'm all for karate, as long as it's kyokushin. We already have one game of tag in the olympics.

 

[Anubis]

TBH greco is pretty boring to watch. freestyle is much more entertaining. but if you are just gonna vote out boring shit because or ratings, get rid of weightlifting sync swimming and the marathon

 

[DesiPower]

Worthless event with worthless sports... Stop the whole thing...

 

[Pocatello]

They should had dropped ping pong (table tennis), tennis, skeet shooting, or badminton, just to name a few, before they decided to drop wrestling.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I'm all for karate, as long as it's kyokushin. We already have one game of tag in the olympics.

It won't be knockdown karate; I do not think it would get ratified. Hell, boxing and TKD are already overly heavy on the safety, as you quipped. Likely to be JKA or WKF variant. WKF allows some nage-waza, so it would make for the most spectator friendly. But Shotokan is huge, with a presence in most countries on the planet. So, we will probably end up with a boring gyaku-tsuki duel. It is such a cookie cutter system, it makes panda bear blue.

 

[Anubis]

they need to merge all the martial arts into 1 (think bloodsport) and remove all the pads

 

[brainhulk]

Replace it with bjj!!!!

 

[waggy]

TBH greco is pretty boring to watch. freestyle is much more entertaining. but if you are just gonna vote out boring shit because or ratings, get rid of weightlifting sync swimming and the marathon

Freestyle is far more fun to watch (and compete in). Greco-Roman though is old and what countries have wrestling it's usually Greco-Roman.

I never cared for Greco-Roman (did it a few years). it's not very popular in the US at all. so finding places to do it is a pain. most of the time you have Freestyle or folkstyle wrestling (used in school sports).

 

[dank69]

htey claiming nobody watches it. I blame that on TV more then i do lack of interest in the sport.

I watched wrestling live over the internet.

ugh. disgusting situation.

There are better sources for gay porn on the internet.

 

[brainhulk]

they need to merge all the martial arts into 1 (think bloodsport) and remove all the pads

Not everybody is able to perform the dim mak

 

[Thebobo]

WTF. Isn't wrestling one of the oldest human sports and one of the original Olympic sports for the Greeks besides the marathon??

Exactly stupid IOC!