IOC votes to keep wrestling in Olympics
The International Olympic Committee awarded wrestling the sole remaining spot in the 2020 and ’24 Games today during a vote of its more than 100 members at its general assembly meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Wrestling’s Olympic status had been threatened when the IOC’s executive committee voted to remove the sport’s status as one of 25 core sports after the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro during a meeting Feb. 12.
The suddenly imperiled sport, with an Olympic history that dates back to the Ancient Games in 708 B.C., was forced to re-evaluated everything — from leadership of its governing body, to gender balance and the complexity of its rules.
Eight sports groups were whittled to three — baseball-softball, squash, wrestling — at an IOC gathering in St. Petersburg, Russia, in May. The sports eliminated in May: Karate, Roller Sports, Sport Climbing, Wakeboarding and the martial art of Wushu.
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