Wrestling dropped

[oldfart]

I like this blog and 100% agree with four of the sports he selects, but I don't like the bashing of table tennis. At the Olympic level it is a very competitive, highly skilled and dynamic sport. It matters a lot in many Asian countries. Just because it is not a big sport in the US, does not mean we should not respect it.

Pingpong: Yeah, I know it's called table tennis. But anything you play in your parents' basement can hardly be considered a sport more worthy of the Olympics than wrestling

You can also wrestle in your parent's backyard, but not at the Olympic level.

Agree. This can really be said for all of the sports at the Olympic level, even pentathlon (I guess???). The athletes in every sport train hard for the event. Like the one article said, the designation of 25 "core sports" is arbitrary and just doesn't make sense, much like the widely used 100 pitch-count maximum in baseball for starting pitchers.

[Spider]

[Gantry]

Agree. This can really be said for all of the sports at the Olympic level, even pentathlon (I guess???). The athletes in every sport train hard for the event. Like the one article said, the designation of 25 "core sports" is arbitrary and just doesn't make sense, much like the widely used 100 pitch-count maximum in baseball for starting pitchers.

Agree 100% with you & ODH... We as wrestling fans know how frustrating it is when ignorant non-fans bring out homophobic statements (guys who like rolling around with each other, etc) and ones like "dumb meatheads who just like to hurt people" when talking about our sport, so why would we stoop to that level? These are all Olympic caliber athletes who bust their butt year round in obscurity for the love of their sport, they aren't the ones who made this happen. Focus on the positives about wrestling, not the negatives of sports you know little-to-nothing about.

[Gantry]

Goodbye Wrestling, how the IOC betrayed its soul:

Sandip Roy: Goodbye Wrestling: How the IOC Betrayed Its Olympic Soul

[Gantry]

More big outlets coming out in favor of wrestling, good writeup by the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013...313.html?_r=1&

[ban basketball]

Focus on the positives about wrestling, not the negatives of sports you know little-to-nothing about.

Yes, like curling. I played hockey for a few years as a kid growing up in Minnesota, and we found curlers on the adjoining rink to us so ridiculous that we used to shoot hockey pucks at them. I found it particularly puzzling with Americans' fascination with curling two winter Olympics ago!

[Flop The Nuts]

Yes, like curling. I played hockey for a few years as a kid growing up in Minnesota, and we found curlers on the adjoining rink to us so ridiculous that we used to shoot hockey pucks at them. I found it particularly puzzling with Americans' fascination with curling two winter Olympics ago!

Pretty sure the Swedish women's curling team was semi-fascinating. They don't look like they've taken many pucks to the face.

[Gantry]

An Iowa congressman is taking it to DC:

Loebsack introduces resolution to oppose excluding wrestling from Olympics | blogs.press-citizen.com

[ban basketball]

An Iowa congressman is taking it to DC:

Loebsack introduces resolution to oppose excluding wrestling from Olympics | blogs.press-citizen.com

That would make sense. He was a former professor at Cornell College (which has a wrestling team), and Cornell is very close to Iowa City, where the Univ. of Iowa is.

I suspect that he has close ties to the sport.