Wrestling Gone from the Olympics (as Well as It's Spirit)

Oh no. What will John Cena do now?

The Olympics have lost some of their integrity today by taking one of it's most historic sports out of the lineup. Wrestling has been dropped from the Summer Olympic's list of 25 core sports by the IOC. Starting with the 2020 Olympic games, it will have compete for inclusion with 7 other sports. Wrestling has been around since the modern Olympic games started in 1896 and even dates back to the original games in ancient Greece.

It's truly a sad day for anyone that believes in the spirit of the Olympics. One of the bedrocks for the games has been dropped in favor of the modern pentathlon, taekwondo, and field hockey (those are Olympic sports?). Looking at other sports that are in instead of wrestling like BMX racing is a testament on how tradition means nothing to the IOC.

It's just another example of how commercialism has affected a supposed "amateur" competition. I understand that even something as revered as the Olympics needs to make money in order to survive but have we truly lost touch with the spirit of the games so much so that we are dropping original events? How lost we are.