And rightfully so. More than baseball / softball, which I understand that the world thinks of as primarily an American sport, wrestling is as much associated with the Olympic Games and it's history as almost any sport in the Olympics.
My guess is that the reason they were dropped initially is that there is not much the IOC could do to monetize the sport other than to switch to WWF-style wrestling. Oops, I shouldn't give them any ideas.
Wrestling gets reinstated for 2020 Olympics - ESPN:
Wrestling, which was surprisingly dropped from the list of core sports in February, received 49 votes to win in the first round of secret balloting by the International Olympic Committee. Baseball-softball got 24 votes and squash 22.
The decision capped a frantic six-month campaign by the wrestling body FILA to revamp the organization and reshape the sport to save its Olympic status.'via Blog this'
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