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Originally Posted by redfish1
awesome!
wrestling is a true international sport. The dream of Olympic gold keeps a lot of youths around the world out of trouble, and it is a staple of the Olympic games. I can't believe we almost lost wrestling. What will be next? Track or swimming?
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No, track and swimming are safe because RICH countries like those sports.
If you read the reasoning, wrestling is popular and heavily dominated by typically poorer countries that don't buy up lots of event tickets and draw big advertiser revenue dollars.
That's it, the utter bottom line....what sports will make them $$$. I mean holy cow, if you need to add a popular sport to bring in cash then do it but it doesn't cost much extra to include wrestling.
Heck, I'd watch Sarcastaball (Southpark reference) if it meant keeping wrestling in the olympics.
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