Wrestling being one of the first sports in the Olympics, wrestling should never been kicked out of the Olympics, dating back in 708 B.C. When the IOC was eliminated from the 2020 games, This shocked the wrestling community. Wrestling was not in 25 core sports due to the lack of viewers. But on Sunday,8 of September wrestling was reinstated back in the 2020 games.
Wrestling won out of baseball with votes up to 24 and squash had 22, wrestling won with 44. This was a very exciting day for the wrestling community. Being a wrestler myself this was a very crucial day for me, and would effect many things in my life.
Little do people know that wrestling is a sport where there is no real professional league after college. We wrestlers only have the Olympics to look forward too, it gives us a opportunity to represent more than ourselves but our country. If wrestling was eliminated permanently that this would effect the youth and destroy young athletes dreams. We would have a trickle down effect meaning if wrestling was never back in the Olympics, allot more college wrestling sport teams would drop there programs meaning less college wrestlers. This would effect high school wrestlers too then our sport would slowly die down.
Even though this should of never happened, we should be aware that our sport is sitting on a fine line. We must become better leaders and help preserve our sport. We can use this as a advantage because we can use the media attention to the IOC bringing wrestlers back in the Olympics, and direct it to the sport itself. With the new scoring in the Olympics with only one stalling warning and takedowns worth two wrestling should be more exciting for everyone. Thanks to the all help from twitter and the whole country we can say we have saved our sport for now, but we must always be aware of what happened and must move forward and improve everyday for our sport that we love so dearly. 
I wish baseball could be added back in as well, baseball is as popular if not more popular in Japan as it is here.
ReplyDeleteI think it is good that wrestling was reinstated back into the Olympics. I've never been a big fan of wrestling but now that its in the Olympics i will defiantly give it a shot. It seems like an interesting sport. I also wish baseball could be reinstated as well.
ReplyDeleteI agree that wrestling is one of oldest sports in a sense that we should not get rid of it in the Olympic. We should keep our comments to wrestling and encourage the young kids to particular in it. This process will help to promote wrestling for a long period of time .
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