Wrestling dropped from the Summer Olympics??

[starrieskies]

I just heard about this, and it seems so odd to me.  I may be a little bit biased because a lot of the men in my family (immediate and extended) were involved in wrestling and I enjoyed it enough to be a "manager" in high school and still volunteer occasionally at tournaments, but aside from that...

Wrestling has been an Olympic sport from the beginning!  Why in the world would you drop wrestling and keep pentathlon???  (I admit I had never even heard of pentathlon until today, I had to google it).

[smock]

But, but, wrestling is so ANCIENT GREECE!

[Muddled]

Baseball is up for grabs too, as are a couple of other sports that I do not recall at this very moment.


It is odd that would drop an original sport. Is the popularity waning?

[starrieskies]

I just can't seem to wrap my head around it... I mean, this is a sport that basically started the Olympic Games!

It doesn't require a lot of fancy, expensive equipment, so it invites competitors from all economic areas. Isn't that kind of the idea of the Olympics? To bring together athletes from all over the world?

[flamingeaux]

No, you fools! The point of the olympic games in sponsors and endorsements. They only had those silly sports in there because commercials hadn't been invented yet.

[partiallysunny]

I'm surprised. Why did they drop it?

[fussbucket]

I think in the spirit of the traditional, pagan Olympics, they need to bring back wrestling AND the kind of hand-to-hand fighting where the only prohibited move was eye-gouging.

Oh and the athletes should compete naked.

ETA: ah, this is what I was thinking of. Bring this back! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankration

[fussbucket]

Feb 12, 2013 14:25:38 GMT -5 Muddled said:

Baseball is up for grabs too, as are a couple of other sports that I do not recall at this very moment.


It is odd that would drop an original sport. Is the popularity waning?

I thought baseball had been tried and dropped quite some time ago.

[Muddled]

Feb 12, 2013 15:11:22 GMT -5 fussbucket said:

Feb 12, 2013 14:25:38 GMT -5 Muddled said:

Baseball is up for grabs too, as are a couple of other sports that I do not recall at this very moment.


It is odd that would drop an original sport. Is the popularity waning?

I thought baseball had been tried and dropped quite some time ago.

It's possible. I heard it on the news this morning while I was doing other things. I could have misunderstood.


eta- Wikipedia says it's out this year it was out in 2012 for the first time since 1980.

[neonpink]

I think it's sad that they are dropping it. I was sad when I realized baseball was up too. It's the event I got to see during the 1996 Olympics.

[moolarkey]

We have to make room for wakeboarding.....

[starrieskies]

Feb 12, 2013 14:58:47 GMT -5 partiallysunny said:

I'm surprised. Why did they drop it?

Apparently to make room for something else, but they haven't decided what that something else is going to be yet.