The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended to eliminate the Wrestling of the Summer Olympic Games in 2020.Reported by the Associated Press , citing its own sources in the IOC. It is not reported whether all kinds of wrestling – Greco-Roman, freestyle and women’s – are recommended for expulsion.
February 12 executive committee members reviewed the report, which on the basis of 30 criteria to assess all 26 sports on the program of the Summer Olympics. Earlier media called the main contender for the exclusion from the Olympic program of modern pentathlon. Also known as taekwondo, table tennis and badminton.
In May 2013, in St. Petersburg, Russia will be a meeting of the executive committee of IOC, which will be decided which sport is to recommend for inclusion in the program of the Games-2020. Claim to include baseball, softball, karate, roller sports, squash, sport climbing, wakeboarding and wushu. Along with these activities will also be fighting pretend to keep the place in the Olympics.
The final decision will be taken at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires in September 2013. At the same time the Olympics will be chosen as the capital claimed by Madrid, Istanbul and Tokyo.
At the Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro medals will play in 28 sports. In the program of the Games will add golf and rugby.
Freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling was included in the program of the Olympic Games, except for the Games-1900 in Paris. In 2004, at the Athens Olympics women’s wrestling debut.
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