Olympic Wrestling Pinned by the I.O.C.

Matt Schleckser (one of our grandchildren) is about to
win one of his matches in the Montgomery County,
MD finals for the Churchill High School Bulldogs.
(Credit:  All photos courtesy of Matt's mom,
 Denise Schleckser.)
 

On February 12, the International Olympic Committee voted to remove wrestling from the roster of summer Olympic Games, beginning with the XXXII Olympiad scheduled for 2020. 

That decision was reached secretly in Lausanne, Switzerland, by the 15-person board of the I.O.C. 

In a New York Times article, John Irving reports that “Just two of the board’s members come from countries where wrestling is an actively promoted sport.  Yet 180 countries wrestle.”