News and Comment
| 17Apr13 | DesMoines Register.com |
Dan Gable gives views on rule changes. US Rule Change Committee views explained | Link |
| 11Apr13 | ESPN | Wrestling has lots to learn from MMA says Bill Scherr, the chairman of the U.S. based Committee to Preserve Olympic Wrestling | Link |
| 05Apr13 | LawinSport | Article on causes of recommended removal with historical perspective: Dr Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, (Reader in Olympic Studies & the Social Analysis of Sport, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) and Dr Evangelos Albanidis (Associate Professor of Sports History, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece) | Link |
| 03Apr13 | ESPN | Baseball/Softball’s joint bid for Olympic reinstatement is still lacking a guarantee that major league stars would be available to play says International Baseball Federation President Riccardo Fraccari | Link |
| 26Mar13 | Guardian Weekly | Wrestling is still the stuff of dreams for Russia’s young hopefuls Decision to cut the sport from the 2020 Olympics threatens a culture rooted in the Caucasus |
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| 11Mar13 | ESPN | The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations says the process that led to wrestling’s exclusion by the IOC executive board last month is not “in the best interests of the IOC or the Olympic movement. | Link |
| 10Mar13 | Philly.com | Jordan Burroughs with quotes on the future of Wrestling: “Raphael Martinetti … was fired for failing to sound any alarms prior to the IOC ruling;” Wall Street War-Room | Link |
| 09Mar13 | Global Post | FILA to hold election congress | Link |
| 09Mar13 | Alaska Despatch | A Baseball perspective: Team Japan won the first two World Baseball Classic titles | Link |
| 08Mar13 | SI.com | Jordan Burroughs emerged from the London Olympics with a gold medal and a reputation as perhaps the world’s best wrestler. Now Burroughs has joined the fight to save his sport’s Olympic future. “We’re definitely going to overhaul the sport. Make some rules changes to hopefully make it more exciting,” Burroughs said. “It’s tough. But people want to see more action. More points being scored.” |
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| 07Mar13 | Reuters | Lalovic lists possible changes but acknowledges that sport is running out of time | Link |
| 06Mar13 | Yahoo/Eurosport | Australian IOC member Coates said “”I was amazed the way it [the IOC Exec Board] all went … in the last vote it was eight against wrestling, three against hockey and three against modern pentathlon,” he recalled.” | Link |
| 06Mar13 | ESPN Olympics | Sir Craig Reedie and the IOC Evaluation Commission visit Tokyo for its bid evaluation and are greeted on the third day by two Japanese wrestling gold medalists – Saori Yoshida and Kaori Icho, both three-time Olympic wrestling champions | Link |
| 05Mar13 | Yahoo!Sports | The head of the Association of National Olympic Committees says wrestling has the unanimous support of his executive council. Sheik Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah says he’ll take up the issue with the IOC | |
| 26Feb13 | ESPN | The head of Istanbul’s bid for the 2020 Olympics hopes a winning vote coincides with wrestling’s reinstatement. “If we are awarded the games, Turkey wants to have wrestling events in Istanbul,” Istanbul bid leader Hasan Arat said at a media roundtable in London. | Link |
| 18Feb13 | InsideTheGames | Putin backs new International Wrestling committee to keep sport in Olympics | Link |
| 18Feb13 | Bloomberg | Russia Vows to Reverse Wrestling’s Removal From Olympics | Link |
| 17Feb13 | The Times | Giles Smith: Unloved grapplers can still climb off canvas | Link |
| 16Feb13 | Russia NGB | Crisis management group to be set up to control development strategy up to 2025; contacts with major marketing agencies and preparing the Wrestling presentation to the IOC Executive Board meeting in St. Petersburg | Link |
| 15Feb13 | The New York Times | John Irving: How Wrestling Lost the Olympics | Link |
| 14Feb13 | ESPN | USA-led group tries to save Olympic wrestling | Link |
| 13Feb13 | BOA | British Olympic Association reports Jacques Rogge comments | Link |
| 13Feb13 | The Times | Simon Barnes: Tradition becoming a poor second to filthy lucre | Link |
| 13Feb13 | TheMat.com | Richard Bender Column: Wrestling is ready for this challenge!! | Link |
| 13Feb13 | New York Daily News | Masters champion Zach Johnson agrees: IOC’s move to drop wrestling from Olympics is a foolish one | Link |
| 13Feb13 | Europe On-Line |
Greek wrestling federation slams IOC decision to cut sport -Further reax from other countries | Link |
| 13Feb13 | TheMat.com | On The Mat: Journalist Alan Abrahamson – why he wasn’t surprised by the move from the IOC. Abrahamson provides a unique inside from outside of the wrestling bubble and helps us understand what the deal was. | Link |
| 10Feb13 | Global Post | Agence France-Presse wrote in advance that One sport set to be cast into Olympic limbo… | Link |
| 08Feb13 | Pioneer Press | Associated Press: Olympics: Modern pentathlon may be shot | Link |
