Since the 2020 Olympics were coming up the Olympic committee wanted to take the sport of wrestling to be removed from the Olympics but if you think about it what was the sport that began the Olympics and was one of the first sports. Wrestling has been around since the first Olympic games and has always been around. Then only Olympics wrestling has not been in was 1900. In the Olympics there are 180 countries who participate and most of them have at least one medal and have at least one gold. Why would you take wrestling out of the Olympics? what has it done wrong? It does not make any clear sense.
Some people in the world say that they don’t let their kids participate in wrestling and also should be removed from the Olympics because it causes violence. “It is the cause of violence among children.”said ("Should wrestling be dropped from the Olympics?"). If wrestling causes violence there would be way more injuries than there is. When people wrestle their objective is not to hurt people it is to have fun and try to win. No one in the sport of wrestling intends to hurt anybody it is intended to have fun. If it causes violence then why do you never hear of wrestling fights. In the sport of wrestling they have great sportsmanship and do not fight. Another reason that people say wrestling should be removed is because when wrestling is on tv they say that it is boring to watch. When you are watching wrestling you get to experience a lot of cool different stuff. There is so much stuff that happens when you watch wrestling. Such as throws, pins, all kinds of different moves and most of all the banana split which is the best wrestling move ever. At the NCAA Wrestling Championships there are over a thousand people watching in real life, there in action. On TV there is said to be more than most football fans watching. Just like football games people make bets, wrestling is known to have some underestimated wrestlers that could make or break your bet and it makes the betting more fun never knowing who will win. Some people also think the sport of wrestling is dying. This is a false opinion because wrestling is one of the top popular sports.When at a wrestling tournament there are over a thousand kids, and with parents that amount doubles. Every country in the world has shown a popularity to wrestling. Curtain tournaments have been known to have people all over the world, and from different countries show up to wrestle with other kids from the world. This builds friendships with the kids around the world to get to know others and people come together to form a bond because of the sport of wrestling and taking their experience from other people around the world to better themselves as a wrestler or just as a person because of certain friendships or certain role models. Some people come from different parts of the world and can be more developed and skilled, so meeting the new people they help each other to become better wrestlers by teaching moves, or better ways to stick a move. Another reason people say wrestling should be removed is because they think the sports is homophobic. But wrestling has nothing to do with the fact of grabbing your opponent in the groin area. In wrestling if one of …show more content…
In one article it explains it all, “ It teaches how to work hard for something that you want to achieve and to be the best that you could possibly be. Also how to commit to something. This is why employers often look for wrestlers, because they are used to showing up to school everyday and to to do it to the best to their ability. It is like what coach always tells us. Even if a wrestler wants to become a ditch digger for a living he will work to be the best ditch digger that he can be.....("Should wrestling be dropped from the Olympics?")” When you’re a wrestler, the things you learn, you carry on with you later in life to develop the skills better and teach others the skills they might not