Sunday 8 September 2013

Wrestling wins Olympic vote

Wrestling has won back its spot as an Olympic sport and will be contested at both the 2020 and 2024 Games.
In a vote take by International Olympic Committee members in Buenos Aires yesterday, wrestling held off rivals squash and baseball.
Delta state's Lucky Opiated in blue outfit lucks hornets with Adibo Dick of Bayelsa state in the men's 84kg weight class free style at the just concluded Maiden Chief E K Clerk wrestling championship in Warri, Delta state. Adibo Dick won the bout.
Delta state’s Lucky Opiated in blue outfit lucks hornets with Adibo Dick of Bayelsa state in the men’s 84kg weight class free style at the just concluded Maiden Chief E K Clerk wrestling championship in Warri, Delta state. Adibo Dick won the bout.
Wrestling had been an Olympic sport for more than a hundred years until being dropped from its programme earlier in 2013.
However, wrestling needed just one round of voting to secure its spot in Japan for seven years’ time, collecting 49 of the 95 cast.
The joint bid by baseball/softball was second with 24 votes while squash received 22.
Nenad Lalovic of Serbia, who took over as president of the International Wrestling Federation in February, said: “We made mistakes but we decided to listen and learn and those mistakes will not happen again.
“We have modernised our Federation, our constitution has become much more democratic with more women and athletes in the administration and with the referees absolutely independent.”
The decision comes less than 24 hours after Tokyo were awarded the 2020 Games at the expense of Istanbul and Madrid.

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