1. 02-12-13 11:41 AM #1
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    IOC cuts wrestling from 2020 Olympics

    This is unreal

    http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympi...9336--oly.html

    In a shocking move, the International Olympic Committee voted to drop wrestling from its schedule for the 2020 Games. The unexpected decision was made via secret ballot during a Tuesday meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland where officials were discussing ways to "streamline" the Olympics. Though many assumed modern pentathlon would get the boot, the committee instead decided to eliminate wrestling, which has roots in the ancient Greece games and has been a part of every modern Olympics since they began in 1896. The vote was completed over several rounds and the final totals were not released to the public.
    Each of the Summer Games' 26 "core sports" were reviewed and at risk:
    "This is a process of renewing and renovating the program for the Olympics," IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. "In the view of the executive board, this was the best program for the Olympic Games in 2020. It's not a case of what's wrong with wrestling, it is what's right with the (other) 25 core sports."
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  2. 02-12-13 11:43 AM #2
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    Olympics are becoming a joke
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  3. 02-12-13 11:47 AM #3
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    fml
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  4. 02-12-13 12:36 PM #4
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    Yet they have rythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming. Unreal. MMA better get in soon.
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  5. 02-12-13 12:38 PM #5
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    http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/boxing-mma...l-topical.html
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  6. 02-12-13 12:38 PM #6
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    Yeah, this really pissed me off good. The Olympics ARE the pros of wrestling after college. It's one of the best, most accessable sports on the planet and it's VERY well represented at the games bringing a LOT of nations to compete.
    But yet they have shit like Tramopoline (erm Trambopoline - thanks Homer J) or horses dancing. Are you f'n kidding me? I'm even surprised they are adding Rugby 7s (15s would be impossible to do in the Olympics), which is interesting, but not at the cost of one of the CORNERSTONE events on the card. If it doesn't make the cut (it still isn't officially out), wrastling is going to be close to dead. The younger gens seem to like MMA style fighting (BJJ and the like) better.

    If they take Judo out, though. I'll lose my shit. Ugh, why can't they take Taekwondo out?
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  7. 02-12-13 12:40 PM #7
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    Not a diehard wrestling fan, but.........this is just wrong.
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  8. 02-12-13 12:45 PM #8
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    Top 10 TV events from the 2012 games.



    1. Opening ceremony, 26.9 million (27 July)
    2. Closing ceremony, 26.3 million (12 August)
    3. Usain Bolt wins gold in the 100 metres final, 20 million (5 August)
    4. Mo Farah, gold 10,000 metres final, 17.1 million (4 August)
    5. Jessica Eniss seals the heptathlon with 800 metres win, 16.3 million (4 August)
    6. Tom Daley takes bronze medal in the 10m platform diving final 15.9 million (11 August)
    7. Greg Rutherford wins gold in the long jump, 15.6 million (4 August)
    8. Usain Bolt wins gold in the 200 metres final, 15.4 million (9 August)
    9. Mo Farah wins gold in the 5,000 metres, 12.9 million (11 August)
    10. Sally Pearson takes gold for Australia in the 100m hurdles, 12.1 million (7 August)


    It's been a long time since it's been about tradition. Bring Back The Good Will Games! Ok..maybe not
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  9. 02-12-13 12:46 PM #9
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  10. 02-12-13 01:00 PM #10
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    BIGDAY might go on a rampage here. Going cabin crazy from the MN winter, now no more wrasslin' in the Olympics. Hide yo kids, hide yo wife!
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  11. 02-12-13 01:00 PM #11
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    half the forum be lucky to be alive in 2012

    bad move though
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  12. 02-12-13 01:01 PM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by El Nino View Post
    Yet they have rythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming. Unreal. MMA better get in soon.
    lol crazy aint it
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  13. 02-12-13 01:02 PM #13
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    I thought of BigDay crying when I read this. I approve.
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  14. 02-12-13 01:04 PM #14
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    Quote Originally Posted by ttwarrior1 View Post
    half the forum be lucky to be alive in 2012

    bad move though
    2020 sausage fingers.
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  15. 02-12-13 01:05 PM #15
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    Quote Originally Posted by ttwarrior1 View Post
    half the forum be lucky to be alive in 2012

    bad move though
    I'll take that bet. Let me fire up the DeLorean
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  16. 02-12-13 01:06 PM #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by El Nino View Post
    2020 sausage fingers.
    this fukking guy...wanna bring us down, but the Keyboard God is not letting him
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  17. 02-12-13 01:13 PM #17
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    After this news picture now how many kids are going to skip wrestling in school in college and go for some other sport
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  18. 02-12-13 01:19 PM #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by ttwarrior1 View Post
    half the forum be lucky to be alive in 2012

    bad move though
    Hey retard.

    You do realize it is 2013, don't you?

    I'm pretty sure 100% of the active posters on SBR WERE ALIVE IN 2012.
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  19. 02-12-13 01:40 PM #19
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    yeh it was a typo, chill out lying fraud moron

    How's your other account going?

    burt says hi. Tell mw i said hi
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  20. 02-12-13 01:44 PM #20
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    http://www.tmz.com/2013/02/12/wwe-wr...ling-olympics/

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  21. 02-12-13 01:49 PM #21
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    this is a tragedy...what the hell is wrong with these people, they are going to take wrestling out as a sport?? the olympics were practically built on wrestling, one of the oldest sports in the history of the olympics dating back to the romans...some amazing moments and memories have been created by wrestling, and this will definitely devistate the sport at the high school and collegiate level...what a damn shame
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  22. 02-12-13 01:52 PM #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by daneblazer View Post
    Olympics are becoming a joke
    Starting to agree with that statement.
    Wrestling is as important to the Olympics as track and field.
    What better sport to demonstrate the human condition vs another human condition.
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  23. 02-12-13 01:53 PM #23
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    Quote Originally Posted by ttwarrior1 View Post
    yeh it was a typo, chill out lying fraud moron

    How's your other account going?

    burt says hi. Tell mw i said hi
    TT, tell everyone again about all the sports you played in high school, and how you were all-state in baseball.

    You didn't even START!! Tell everyone how your mom pays for everything in your life because you're a lazy fukin slob.
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  24. 02-12-13 01:58 PM #24
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    Sammy........why such a hardon for our local super hero all the time pal?
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    As long as they don't cut ping pong and badminton I'm fine with it.
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  26. 02-12-13 02:28 PM #26
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    they will keep that stupid go slow on a BIKE until last lap and drop Wrestling>? WTF?
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  27. 02-12-13 02:31 PM #27
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    I wrestled in high school.....but to be honest it does nothing for me at the Olympic level....

    Maybe we can replace it with a handicapping competition or poker?
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  28. 02-12-13 02:36 PM #28
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    American sports keep getting eliminated and replaced with stuff that the rest of the world does well at.
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    I heard it had more to do with the spread of herpes due to the constant skin on skin contact
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    Quote Originally Posted by William Walters View Post
    Sammy........why such a hardon for our local super hero all the time pal?
    Because he made fun of that guy with cancer.
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  31. 02-12-13 03:07 PM #31
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    Finally, no more having to watch grown men trying to fornicate with one another on a mat...
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  32. 02-12-13 03:09 PM #32
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    Quote Originally Posted by ACoochy View Post
    Finally, no more having to watch grown men trying to fornicate with one another on a mat...
    That's what I was thinking!

    Good one, Lethal.
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  33. 02-12-13 03:26 PM #33
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    Quote Originally Posted by ACoochy View Post
    Finally, no more having to watch grown men trying to fornicate with one another on a mat...
    Cooch u gotta respect one of the oldest sport that there is out there
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  34. 02-12-13 03:32 PM #34
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    So they keep crap like speed walking but drop wrestling?
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  35. 02-12-13 03:47 PM #35
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    Russia and Iran cleaned up at the London games in mens wrestling. Reminds me of these guys

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