IOC adds golf and drops wrestling from the Olympics

[B.J.]

I really don't care either way. Never really watched wrestling or golf myself. Golf is just too boring. As for wrestling, I never really had an interest in it anyway, but....

The other biggest problem wrestling has had in the second half of the 20th century to now is that its not as sexy to watch on TV (where the big money is) for your average viewer as most other sports are because most people don't know the rules and in a fast pace sport like wrestling if you haven't done it yourself and don't know the rules it just comes off like men grabbing each other and rolling around.

I think that last part nails it. Most of the other Olympic sports that I can think of are pretty simple to understand. Sure, there are occasional calls and such that the layperson won't understand, but they still "get" most of what's going on.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

I think that last part nails it. Most of the other Olympic sports that I can think of are pretty simple to understand. Sure, there are occasional calls and such that the layperson won't understand, but they still "get" most of what's going on.

Well, judo and fencing are Olympic sports.

 

[jmc247]

I like Graeco-Roman wrestling and I am sad to see it out of the Olympics for its historical significance, but I cannot help but laugh at jmc's rant how it's a the manliest sport, befitted of American presidents and war generals above "horse dancing" and such effeminate activities, and it's all the feminists' fault.

Not feminists bureaucraticgirlymen who think that dancing their horse is a real sport.

 

[MacLeod]

Well bear in mind that these sports were voted out. Now of course we don't know the exact numbers for the vote, but if some of these sports are hugely popular outside of N. America and Western Europe, it would seem likely that their would be enough votes from IOC members from countries outside of those to out vote them and keep them in.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I like Graeco-Roman wrestling and I am sad to see it out of the Olympics for its historical significance, but I cannot help but laugh at jmc's rant how it's a the manliest sport, befitted of American presidents and war generals above "horse dancing" and such effeminate activities, and it's all the feminists' fault.

Not feminists bureaucraticgirlymen who think that dancing their horse is a real sport.

Keep digging. Maybe you can catch up with Kenbushway in his manly trench.