Back to topic, i don't hink wrestling will be remove cuz the other sports are not very popular, Squash, Roller board, wakebading are not more popular than Wrestling, Wushu is only popular in China, karate has to many styles to be a olympic sport.
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It better not be removed.... wrestling is huge even in the U.S.... im sure the US and Russia can put some major pressure to make sure wrestling is in the olympics. .... because we all know the IR cant do sh1tOriginally posted by Shamim View PostAKP Parti, Turkiye - Haj Bernie SandersogluComment
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Iran is hoping to join wrestling's major powers to stop efforts to cut the ancient sport from the 2020 Olympic Games.
Mohammad Aliabadi, the head of Iran's National Committee of Olympic, is quoted by Iran's official IRNA news agency as calling the decision by the IOC executive board "very serious."
He adds, "Resorting to help of many big countries, we will block the decision."Comment
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speaking of wrestling the world cup is coming up in a week or so and its in IRAN
US is sending their A team....maybe they'll use this to finally televise some of it and get people's interest to put pressure on IOC....we all know in US they can turn anything popular over night. Next thing u know average americans are into wrestling lolComment
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yeah wrestling is a big High school sport in the USOriginally posted by Shamim View Post
my school who wasnt too big on athletics and only had the basic basketball, soccer and volleyball teams (nothing fancy like rowing etc) had a wrestling teamComment
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I say please move this to the main forum as this is extremely important. Not only to keep the Olympics alive, but also because it would be a huge blow to Iran.
We might not realize it now; however the pain will come soon... Imagine yourself following the Olympic news, but many of our heroes are missing.
They have enough problems to deal with in Iran, let's support them and not take away their last dreams.
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wow apparently the head of the US federation (or vice chair) is going to iran in order to start some sort of lobby with the iranian and russian federationComment
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yea it makes sense....the federations of Iran, US, russia and all the power houses of wrestling are very close to each other. They deal with each other all the time cuz of all the tournaments and like i said earlier, the freestyle world cup is coming up next week in Iran anyways...so im sure he'll combine tripsOriginally posted by radin119 View Post
i really hope to see some decent wrestling coverage on ESPN cuz of thisComment
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Wrestling president Raphael Martinetti quits after Olympic omission
FILA to comment later Saturday
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The FILA Bureau nominated Mr. Nenad Lalovic (SRB) as acting President. In accordance with the the FILA Constitution, an extraordinary Congress may be called by the Bureau or by at least one third of the affiliated National Federations in order to ratify the Bureau's decision or appoint another acting President. Mr. Martinetti hopes that this situation will help save wrestling and thanks all National Federations for their unfailing support throughout his term as FILA President since 2020. Mr. Martinetti also wishes plenty of success to Mr. Lalovic for the mission that now rests in his hands.sigpicComment
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US, Russia, Iran join hands for Olympic Wrestling
Washington, Feb 16 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The United States and Russia have grappled over Iran's nuclear ambitions in recent years, but the three nations are now joining forces for the right to keep on grappling in the Olympics after International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials recommended scrapping the ancient sport of wrestling this week.
"We must form a coalition of the willing, so to speak, that will come together at some point to support the cause," Rich Bender, executive director of USA Wrestling, the sport's body in the United States, told RIA Novosti Friday.
Bender said he spoke by telephone with senior Russian wrestling official Georgy Bryusov Thursday and that he has held telephone talks with Iranian wrestling federation executives as well.
Bender is to leave Monday for Tehran, where US wrestlers are set to compete in the 2013 Freestyle World Cup and where he plans to discuss a plan of action with his Iranian counterparts and representatives from other national federations.
"Many of the other wrestling powers will be there," said Bender. "My hope is that this coalition will start to form very swiftly."
The IOC's executive board announced this week its recommendation that wrestling not be included in the 2020 Summer Olympics, a proposal that, if ratified by the IOC in September, would eliminate a sport that had endured from the ancient Olympic Games through every modern Olympic competition since the movement's revival in 1896.
The United States and Iran have not had formal diplomatic relations for more than three decades, and US-Russia ties have arguably reached their nadir since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
A recently enacted US law called the Magnitsky Act places sanctions on Russian officials deemed by the White House to be complicit in rights abuses, and Moscow retaliated by banning Americans from adopting Russian children.
The two nations also remain divided over how to respond to the raging civil war in Syria and Tehran's pursuit of expanded nuclear capabilities.
But geopolitical grappling has little place in the wrestling world, Bender said.
"Obviously we're fierce competitors on the mat, but we're family off it. Obviously that's the great beauty of our sport - that it transcends politics. We join together as wrestlers."
Bryusov, first vice president of the Russian Wrestling Federation, could not immediately be reached for comment Friday.
But the federation issued a statement Thursday calling on national federations to "unite forces" to rescue wrestling's place at the Olympics.
IOC President Jacques Rogge said this week that he would meet with the leadership of FILA, international wrestling's governing body, to discuss the sport's fate.
"I should say FILA reacted well to this disheartening news for them," Rogge told a news conference Wednesday.
"They vowed to adapt the sport and vowed to fight to be eventually included in the 2020 slot."Comment
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I'm in support of any military invasion of the countries involved with the decision.Originally posted by hzv View PostComment
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could be see wrestling diplomacy just like we saw ping pong diplomacy?Comment
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