{"id":238,"date":"2013-05-11T03:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/11\/wrestlers-going-to-the-mat-for-their-sport"},"modified":"2013-05-11T03:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T03:12:00","slug":"wrestlers-going-to-the-mat-for-their-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Wrestlers going to the mat for their sport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s good to see Olympic medal-winning wrestlers wanting to keep their sport as part of the Games.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/business-a-lobbying\/298645-wrestlers-go-to-mat-to-keep-sport-in-olympics-\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/business-a-lobbying\/298645-wrestlers-go-to-mat-to-keep-sport-in-olympics-\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/business-a-lobbying\/298645-wrestlers-go-to-mat-to-keep-sport-in-olympics-<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>What a croc!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m 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 \u2013 in the nude, I should add \u2013 in Olympia, Greece, beginning in 776 B.C.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve 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\u2019s oldest sports is unthinkable \u2026 or so I thought.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=238\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wrestlers going to the mat for their sport<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}