An end to Olympic wrestling would be a brutal break with the ancient Games

Astonishing as it may seem to some of us, the International Olympic Committee is proposing to drop wrestling from the 2020 Games onwards. The sport – which has been included in every Games but one since the modern Olympics were reintroduced in 1896 – will be relegated from the agreed "core" of 25 sports and must compete against another half-dozen "candidate" sports for a place.
So where does this leave the relationship between the modern Olympics and their supposed ancient model and inspiration?


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