It’s good to see Olympic medal-winning wrestlers wanting to keep their sport as part of the Games.

The International Olympic Committee wants to dump wrestling as an Olympic sport beginning with the 2020 Games at a site to be named this year.

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/298645-wrestlers-go-to-mat-to-keep-sport-in-olympics-

It would be a travesty of the highest order to eliminate one of the original Olympic sports. The IOC would keep rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming and polo. But wrestling? No, the IOC says fan interest has waned to a level that detracts from the overall Olympic experience.

What a croc!

I’m pulling for the Olympic medal-winners to persuade the IOC to change its mind, restore its sanity and rekindle the spirit of the Games that began with wrestlers grappling with each other – in the nude, I should add – in Olympia, Greece, beginning in 776 B.C.

I’ve had the honor of walking through the original Olympic site with my wife in 2001. We were awestruck just knowing what had happened there nearly three millennia ago. For the keepers of that spirit to think of throwing over one of the world’s oldest sports is unthinkable … or so I thought.