The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has voted to exclude Wrestling from the Olympic
programme, after a meeting in Lausanne.
Modern
pentathlon, taekwondo, table tennis, football, badminton, tennis and weightlifting
were the other contenders for expulsion.
It’s clear that the programme needed
updating but out of that list surely football or tennis, or both, should have
gone as the Olympics isn’t the pinnacle of those sports, if you’re a footballer
or a tennis player a gold medal isn’t top of your priority list.
I also think would be better for
the IOC to review the whole Olympic programme and axe a load of sports all at
once, instead of sitting down after each Olympics and removing a sport and
green lighting another.
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