Tag: Wrestling

Russia Tries to Keep Wrestling in the Olympics

Sports, Olympics, World Cup
File Photo of Olympic Wrestling Match, adapted from defense.gov image

(Voice of America – Jessica Golloher – May 28, 2013) Russia says it will ask the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to keep wrestling in the games. This after the IOC announced it would drop the sport from the 2020 Summer Olympics. The president of the Russian Wrestling Federation, Mikhail Mamiashvili, says that supporters of wrestling worldwide are coming together to […]

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Russia Fights to Put Wrestling Back on the Olympic Mat

Sports, Olympics, World Cup
File Photo of Olympic Wrestling Match, adapted from defense.gov image

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Ivan Nechepurenko – Februry 14, 2013) Hours after the International Olympic Committee’s Tuesday decision to remove wrestling from the Summer Games after 2016, Russia threw its full weight behind a campaign to bring the sport back. Russian Olympic Committee chief Alexander Zhukov ­ a State Duma Vice Speaker and the country’s top Olympic official ­ […]

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