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No Olympics, you got it all wrong...I am dropping YOU.....

Posted by Mr. Twister on February 12, 2013
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Well I woke up and turned my computer on to the dumbest thing since the University of Nebraska at Omaha dropped wrestling. Memo to the stupid Olympic people, the Olympics are THE WORLDS OLDEST SPORT. When I think Olympics I think Track and Field and Olympics. First you dropped baseball (my sport) and now you dropped wrestling. I think I will drop the Olympics. No need for me to watch. Adios.... Andre' Morgan (Wrestling fan)

SINCE THIS IS A DAY TO REALLY VENT: I will turn my column over to the masses and add excerpts from the wrestling community around the world....

"Trev Alberts evidently doesn't have a monopoly on stupid."...Mike Allibone (Parent of an NCAA wrestler and Kansas state champ)

"Now the whole World will know how UNO felt except at least they get a warning that the end is coming!"....Mario Morgan (NCAA Champion & Coach)

" I can think of a few other words to use besides wow, but I'm a lady"....Jen Deitchler-Dominguez (wife of an NCAA Coach)

"Man wrestling might be out of the 2020 Olympics bs a bunch Lil wussys I shall say grow a pair."....Eddie Klimara (NCAA wrestler-IL state champion)

"My jaw,is still on the floor this may be worse than title nine"....Rico Blakley (IHSA state wrestler)

"Wrestling being dropped from the Olympics? They say decision not final but its not looking good. This is a joke, they have sports like archery, badmitton, canoe, equestrian, pentathalon, handball, trampoline, and table tennis. With all of those sports in the Olympics and they want to cut wrestling. Not only is wrestling the oldest sports, but its also the toughest. 99.9% of people can't wrestle because they just aren't tough enough. Look at mma, dominated by wrestlers and mma in my opinion is the 2nd toughest sport. This is a joke I don't see how this sticks. Bunch of cowards like trev alberst, UNO AD who couldn't last 1 week in the wrestling room. Our World is SOoooooo Soft. Bunch of sissies everywhere! Pissed!" ....Todd Meenely (NCAA Champion)

"May have ruined the sport with this decision."....David Zianni (HS Wrestling coach)

"Its so damn stupid....I'm sure we could do without synchronized swimming..... "....Ryan Logdson (Wrestling fan)

"Once those Russians get word of this I'm sure somebody from the KGB will straighten this all out."....Dalton Bullard (NCAA All American)

"What the Hell is this! You can't drop wrestling from the olympics, it is the origin sport of the olympics." ....Colin Toggas (Wrestling fan)

"I am convinced the world is coming to an end. This just proves it. I am now ready to die."...Andre' Morgan (Wrestling fan)

" Did they miss Greek and Roman history in school? Nonsensically Duh!"....Beth Kirkman (Wrestling fan)

"Personally, I think the Olympics are dying. They are all rich , professional athletes. I don't watch anymore." ....Damon Denoyer (Wrestling fan)

"Wrestling is being petitioned to be DROPPED from the 2020 Olympics!?!?!? The oldest sport in the world that was in the first olympics. This is one of the most ridiculous things I've heard in awhile. If anything, they should be adding folkstyle! This is the definition of politics right here!!"....Mark Edward Augle (IL All State wrestler)

"This has made me speechless...IOC must be high on something if they think this will finalize!" Matt Rein (Kansas State champ & NCAA team champ)

"I've spent my whole life wrestling with the belief that one day I might get to wrestle in the olympics. 14 years of dreaming are about to go to **** seeing as after 2016 wrestling will no longer be in the onlympics. I have decided that I am going to start training to be the best at table tennis...... smh"....Nicholas Drendel (IL All State wrestler)

"well that's a depressing way to start my morning... I think I'll go on reddit and look at pictures of kittens"....Zack Botkin (Wrestling fans)

"What the hell am I suppose to tell my 2 year old grandson to do now"....Andre' Morgan (Wrestling fan)

"I haven't been able to get away from this news all morning. The oldest olympic sport is being dropped. Unbelievable."....Kyle Hutter (IL h.s. All American & NCAA wrestler)

"This can't happen"....Aaron Denson (NCAA National champ & Coach)

“The thing is, because of wrestling, I have a mindset that is strong. Exceptionally strong, I don’t believe in the four-letter word ‘quit.’ I don’t believe in the four-letter word ‘can’t." ....Dan Gable (Olympic Champion, NCAA Champion - Wrestling Icon)

"I don't know what to say about the IOC's decision to drop wrestling from its games! I hate that future generations will not be able to compete for this title! We as a community need to stand strong with a voice of many an get this changed! Wrestling is a foundation sport of our youth that we can not let go of! We are to many and only we can make it happen!"....Zac Dominguez (USA Wrestling Greco - Roman coach of the year)

"Let's drop one of the original sports of the games? No sense."....Jeremy Dittmer (Wrestling fan)

"Very simply, we sit back and take it or we get active and do what pentathlon did and start hustling and showing what we are. There are millions of us out there and we have let our voices be heard. We need to show the IOC why they are wrong."...."J.D. Olivia (NCAA Wrestler & Wrestling film documentarian)

"This is every wrestlers' dream. … It's like the World Cup of soccer. It's the greatest event. It's the most prestigious and premiere. It's the very top of the pyramid. It's the Super Bowl. It's only once every four years. There are hundreds of thousands of kids out there where if that were to happen, they don't have that World Cup of soccer. Just the thought is definitely a tragedy. But I think wrestling is very strong worldwide, and we're going to find out just how strong."....Cael Sanderson (Olympic Champion, Undefeated NCAA Champion, NCAA Champion coach, Wrestling Icon)

"By cutting Olympic wrestling, the IOC has officially pissed off the most physically fit and tenaciously aggressive humans on earth. Well done."...Taiten Weatherbee (NCAA Team Champion wrestler)

When my son won his 2011 NCAA championship, a letter came in the mail a few days later from the USA Olympic Wrestling Training Center with a standard offer to come train for the 2016 Olympics. Of and on he and I have had the conversation as to if he should go or move on with his life and just be a coach. I guess there is no need to have that conversation any more. Way to kill a wrestler and his families dream and finalize his competitive career, International Olympic Committee....Andre' Morgan (Wrestling fan)

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