This ain't Athens no more: Wrestling gone from Olympics

Even though they voted to drop it I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the IOC turned around and voted it back in when the choose the two sports to add in May. They'll be picking two from this list:

Wrestling
Baseball/Softball
Climbing
Karate
Fucking Squash
Roller Sports
Wakeboarding
Wushu

 

The direction the Olympics seem headed in, I predict wrestling will simply re-emerge under the leadership of this guy...

 

All good ideas, but what do you do when a rassler from Parts Unknown wins the gold? Play the IOC theme?

 

I ask this in all humble ignorance. WTF is Wushu?

 

I think boxing was in big trouble after Seoul, but they brought in the computerized scoring - and eventually women - and that helped save it.

The US amateur boxing program may be a long way from its glory days of Montreal and LA but boxing is still a big deal globally, but if there is any sport that can skull fuck itself out of the Olympics it will be boxing.

 

And in case anyone is wondering what the holy fuck wushu is: http://www.iwuf.org/index.asp

Apparently it's like gymnastics with weapons and China is really good at it.

 

I think the wushu trying to get into the Olympics was the full-contact martial art, not the weapons forms. But I could be wrong.

 

If people want to make subtle sexual references and jokes, go right ahead. The sport is incredible in its physical and mental commitment, its camaraderie, its development of young men and women. Maybe it holds a higher place in my mind because I wrestled for two years, covered it for four more and live a half-mile from one of the great high school programs in the country (St. Edward, Lakewood, Ohio), but no high school sport comes close to the all-around positive development.

You a 103-pound freshman too small for football? You can wrestle. You a 275-pound behemoth who wants to lose a spare tire? You can wrestle. You want to just plain compete? You can wrestle. It's a perfect mix of brains and brawn, like chess on a mat. You're entitled to your opinion, but when you blindly bash anything — a person, a sport, an idea, an ideal — you really only bash yourself.

If this does affect high school and college programs, and the number across the country decreases, then this a tragedy. It really is.

 

Could be. That link is what I got when I googled International Wushu Federation

 

Still, some of the wrestling photos I saw back in the day that I cringed when seeing it was also our best available art.....too many were just begging for embarrassing situations.

 

I agree wholeheartedly.

I was one of those 98 lb. sophomores who was too small for football (was an 88 lb wingback in frosh football; was smart enough and athletic enough to bring in plays) and got in the best shape of my life wrestling.

Wrestling was the most intense 6 mins of my life. On the mat, just the opponent and I; knowing I could get my arm snapped off or leg broken at any time. It was all about quickness and leverage.

You can make all the innuendo/jokes you want but I know that the jokers never went out on the mat. (I think the problem stems from the view of Pro Wrestling which is nothing like actual amateur wrestling.)

This is a damn shame.

 

Done!

‏@the_ironsheik
You see the legend you know I break the ICO back make them humble. Go fuck the Badminton and the walking they are not sports like wrestling