No room for an amatuer sport in the Olympics.

Ball room dancing would be nice.

Another committee that has lost sight of its original mission statement. Anyone for badminton?

Money - that´s what the Olympics are really about.

Maybe they should issue each contestant one sharp object, and allow masks and noms de guerre...

To answer the query on the homepage, only if the homosexual were promoting it.

I wasn´t glued to the tv last Olympics - watched just a little - but when it ended, I realized I´d heard nothing of boxing. And, yeah, where was wrestling? Two one-time mainstays of the games, pure one on one contests, now all but invisible. The Olympics officially stink.

At least some organization is ´downsizing´.

"Maybe they should make the "________´s" wear dresses."

Wasn´t Greco-Roman wrestling one of the original sports? One of the oldest in Western civilization/history?

"Roller sports"? Are they keeping "synchronized swimming"? Is that a "sport" or an Esther Williams movie?

The fact that this most ancient of sports is not understood is a good reason to keep it around! I feel terrible for the athletes.

Synchronized diving and swimming draws the homo audience.

More sissification. Wrestling is too warlike for the internationalists. They will replace it with something that involves music and costumes.

What were those crazy Greeks thinking with this brutal sport at the Olympics?

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I wrestled in high school and the AAU before the joining the military in the 1950s. It was and is a clean sport where the athlete has only himself to blame for not prevailing. Good lessons for those in their formative years. Maybe they should replace it with the fruits of today´s K-12 sex education -- the only subject in which today´s kids are eager to do extra homework. The IOC is disgusting!

Wrestling saved me from becomming some wiseass punk. It gave me self-esteem and a sense of empowerment. these attributes are mentioned all the time as good but really are just words today. I have promoted wrestling because it is not a team sport and competitors wrestle those that are at the same competitive level, age and wieght. It is one of the orginal olympic sports. I have no use for the Olympics anymore they have become commonplace and boring.

Have to make room for synchronized skipping.

The Olympics are only useful for making more celebrities for a culture obsessed with them. Wrestlers are not pretty and do not make make good celebrities.

It is far to violent...just think of it, wrestling with knives! What a bunch of morons!

What´ll you bet the new replacement involves women, blacks, or the poor?

Saw on NHK TV that the Japanese are miffed at this. They won four medals in wrestling (yes, wrestling, not judo)in the most recent Olympics.

I vote for making it women only, attired in bikinis, and put them in a mud pit.

Do they still have that event where a bunch of girls twirl around ribbons attached to a stick? Let´s have more of that! /s

I guess the IOC has forgotten that there are the competitions for marksmanship with... (gasp)... guns. Shh- don´t remind them.

The IOC have painted themselves as a bunch of silly clowns ever since synchronized swimmimng. Make it a double-header with the ribbons and a stick girls, and it´s just FABULOUS!

My 9th grade son who wrestles is devastated. He finally understands that the world is not fair and is run by people who want to "change the world" whether or not you like it the way it is or not. I have several comments:
1. The Olympics are about money, plain and simple. Nobody is making money off of wrestling.

2. The Americans win a lot of medals in wrestling and the other countries are going to be against it for that reason.

3. There are no pretty girls or openly gay athletes in wrestling, therefore no darlings of the media.

4. Women do not watch wrestling (unless it is their own kid, then they are rabid fans!). They would rather watch those men in those faggy swimtrunks dive or gymnastics.

5. Wrestling has a winner and a loser. They cant stand that. How the hell do you tell who wins a diving contest. They all look the same, but you sure can tell when someone is pinned on the mat!

6. When an athlete reaches the pinnacle of NCAA wrestling, there is only one place to go: The olympics. When you are a champion young golfer, there are many, many venues for you to continue your career forever. You dont need olympic golf to see who is best. Just turn on the golf channel 24/7. The olympics is the only thing that college wrestlers have to dream of.

In conclusion, if it is possible, I am more disgusted than ever with the IOC.

Maybe it is time to give the Olympics a rest. that plick that runs it wounldn´t give the Munich athltes a moment of silence. but ii they wre from Ghana, whew boy the entire day canelled. IOC-chumnps.

I have to disagree with those who say that wrestlers aren´t good looking, mine is.
All the Olympics are anymore is a circus. That´s what I took from the article, especially with how archery has changed their scoring: there must be drama somewhere. This isn´t about sports and athletes anymore, it´s a tv drama.

The classical man is dead. The age of heroes is long gone. There can be no room for a demi-god there are only the modern false ones.

But don´t drop Beach Volleyball or some other inane thing.

@#29: The only thing I have against Beach Volleyball is the women wear too much clothes........./s

IOC...idiots! Wrestling is one of the sports that symbolize the Olympics IMHO.

Haven´t been big on the Olympics since I attended the ´88 Games in Seoul. My favorite venue? Wrestling. Cheered like a madman when we knocked the Iranians out.

Guess I´ll never watch ´em, now.

Forget that it was one of the original sports in the Olympic games.

I haven´t wasted time on the olympics for many years. Once I figured out what a bleeding heart liberal is, then realized they run the olympics, I have avoided it like its a hollywood back patting party.

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I propose adding drag racing and bass fishing to the Olympics. We´d clean up--USA! USA!

#1, Your comment proves you are the god of irony!

Synchronized swimming is NOT a joke. It is very difficult.

And please...can we stop with the "homo" comments? It is getting really old and bigotry is very immature.

A game that is played in a circle and involves "jerking" should be stimulating to the IOC officials.

Now if Dwayne Johnson was "wrestling" against "input name of heel here", they would have it on prime time in the Olympics every night. I would even watch. We need to stop watching the Olympics and go on to other things. This is a sad day for the people who started this ideal. I wonder what they wanted to put in to replace it? Synchronized hugging? Jeesh......

The Olympic committee is getting more like the UN every day. Actually, I´d like to see some Ladies mud wrestling events. Or perhaps Russian women shot putters slugging it out in a snake pit. I´m with #7... who watched the last Olympics.

I´m sure the original Olympians are spinning in their graves....

While I wouldn´t care to see them compete nude as in classical Greece, this is a major loss. Not only should they keep wrestling, but I´d love to see chariot racing.

I agree #37, everyone should stop with the "homo" comments.

The most appropriate word is "buttf*****s".

How about the Olympic "sport" with the women prancing around with streamers? I´ll bet that stays in.

I gave up on the Olympics when they let the NBA in. Up till then I enjoyed it. Now it´s just another pro sport.

There are stores, somewhat improbable to be sure be sure because of his age, that Plato wrestled in the anchient Olympic Games.

What is going on here?


Oh. I forgot. Geography, history, and philosophy are no longer part of the curriculum and tradition has been dropped from the culture.

I am a wrestler since 7th grade. One of the most character building sports in existence. It is the least violent fighting sport. The conditioning required is unbelievable. Eliminating wrestling from the sport is like eliminating painting from an art gallery. There are so many questionable sports. Olympics are about physical conditioning. They should take all the artsy sports and put them in another category of Olympics: Water ballet. A sad day.