Wrestling To Be Dropped As Olympic Sport In 2020

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The International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday that wrestling will be dropped from the event beginning with the 2020 summer games, the Associated Press reported.

One of the oldest Olympic competitions, wrestling was removed from the IOC’s list of 25 “core sports,” which will allow the committee to add a new sport later this year. In its decision, the IOC spared modern pentathlon, an event that many observers thought was on the chopping block. 

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