SAVE WRESTLING.
The 2020 Olympics are still a ways off, but the International Olympics Committee knows how to stay in the news, for better or for worse. Here's something firmly in the category of "worse": the IOC has dropped wrestling from those Games, meaning that, barring an unlikely turn of events, the 2016 Rio Olympics will be wrestling's last. This is insane. Here's why.
Wrestling Is The Oldest Sport. THE OLDEST SPORT.
Cave drawings of wrestling scenes go back 15,000 years, and there are depictions of ancient societies using basically the same techniques that are still popular today. Wrestling was the marquee event in the original Greek Olympic Games and a major part of the first reinvigorated Games starting in 1896. As a symbol of the legacy of sport in human culture, wrestling is completely unrivaled, and for the IOC to jettison it now is to turn its back on the thing it's meant to be protecting.
Wrestling Has Given Us Some Of Our Greatest Olympic Heroes
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