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Olympics Eliminate Wrestling…to Make Room for Sport Climbing?

By Rocky Thompson on February 13th, 2013

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The Olympics is really struggling with that 20- to 30-year-old demographic. What better way to attract some new viewers to NBC (who’s paying over $1 billion for the TV rights) than eliminating some boring mid-morning sport no one watches and replacing it something radical!? Welcome to the Olympics, rock climbing. Or maybe softball, karate, or skateboarding. Sure, it’s sad that one of the sports practiced in the original Olympics has to make way for us to enjoy ourselves, but upward and onward. Maybe if they’d ever opened wrestling to women, they wouldn’t be having this problem. (Take note ski jumping and your lack of a women’s contest.)

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5 Responses to “Olympics Eliminate Wrestling…to Make Room for Sport Climbing?”

  1. john February 13th, 2013 at 11:34 am

    They DO have Women’s wrestling in the Olympics. Check your facts first!

  2. Baughb February 13th, 2013 at 11:45 am

    Pretty sure women’s ski jumping has been added for Sochi.

  3. gw February 13th, 2013 at 1:12 pm

    “Women began participating in freestyle wrestling at the 2004 Athens Games” according to the NYTimes article in the link. There goes your theory.

  4. bryantp February 13th, 2013 at 1:21 pm

    Croquet?

  5. JD February 13th, 2013 at 5:25 pm

    Oh oh, now standup paddling doesn’t stand a chance! Oh wait! X Games!