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1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | | WHEREAS, The executive board of the International Olympic |
3 | | Committee (IOC) reviewed 26 sports on its
summer program and |
4 | | decided to eliminate wrestling as an Olympic sport, stunning |
5 | | the world's wrestlers, who see their sport as
popular and |
6 | | steeped in history as old as the Olympics themselves; and
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7 | | WHEREAS, While wrestling will be included at the 2016 |
8 | | Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, it will not be included
in the 2020 |
9 | | Olympic Games; and
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10 | | WHEREAS, The executive board of the IOC voted after |
11 | | reviewing an IOC program commission report that
analyzed 39 |
12 | | criteria, including TV ratings, ticket sales, global |
13 | | participation, and popularity; and
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14 | | WHEREAS, According to IOC documents, wrestling ranked |
15 | | "low" in several of the technical criteria; and
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16 | | WHEREAS, The decision to phase out wrestling will have a |
17 | | detrimental impact on many teams
around the world, including |
18 | | the United States, whose wrestling medals are only outnumbered |
19 | | by
swimming and track and field; and |
20 | | WHEREAS, Wrestling is also one of the most popular youth |