02-12-2013, 09:54 PM
(02-12-2013, 05:35 PM)Robbie link Wrote:I just learned that wrestling was taken off the list of Olympic sports, but Modern Pentathlon was left on. That's crazy. Wrestling is a sporting competition in pure form. Essentially the same competition practiced since humanoids crawled out of the swamp. Why would you get rid of it? Fun to watch.
While Modern Pentathlon is an anachronistic combination of 19th century aristocratic pastimes.
I'll just have to add this to the list of stupid decisions made by the IOC.
An unfathomably moronic decision wrestling is one of the original Olympic sports it goes back to the ancient Games and has been in the modern Games since they began in 1896.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi...full.story
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