"Dropping Wrestling from the Olympics"
Wrestling is a sport that has been
around longer than any other. It is a one on one, battle of the fittest. This
past February, plans to drop wrestling from the Olympics were revealed.
Wrestling has been in the Olympics from its start in 708 B.C. and also in 1896
A.D. when the “modern Olympics” were said to have began. Reasons for dropping
the sport are mainly because of the recent decline in popularity and
participation. Worldwide, wrestlers have shown opposition to the proposition of
dropping wrestling from the Olympics.
These
new plans to drop the oldest sport in the Olympics are questionable to say the
least. The history of this sport
should be enough to keep it around. Nations across the world compete and it's
not as if one nation dominates the sport every year. Bulgaria has sixty-eight medals, Finland and Sweden have one
hundred and sixty-seven medals, and countries all over the world have wrestlers
placing each year. Especially since sports like
badminton and synchronized diving are still prevalent in the Olympics, it makes
eliminating wrestling that much worse. The competition in wrestling is fierce and to take away this
from the Olympics would be verging on sinful.
