For wrestling, this might have been the ultimate body slam: getting tossed out of the Olympic rings. The vote Tuesday by the IOC's executive board stunned the world's wrestlers, who see their ...

In that universe, wrestling just isn't sexy enough. "That," said University of Texas Germanic professor John Hoberman, who has written extensively about Olympic history, "is a reasonable hypothesis." ...

"I started wrestling when I was five years old," Burroughs said in his NBC Olympics profile. "My first tournament, I went 1-1, and I didn't medal, but they gave out participation trophies.

Wrestling was part of the Ancient Greek Olympics, where competitors fought while covered in oil. The sport was part of the first modern Games in 1896 and has been an Olympic sport continuously ...

2024 Olympic wrestling Day 1 recap: ... Cuba's Mijain Lopez Nunez one match away from fifth Olympic Gold Medal. The 41-year old is not slowing down whatsoever, ...

Kennedy Blades defeated an Olympic silver medalist to win the wrestling Olympic trials and punch her ticket to Paris. But there’s still something missing for her, and she can feel it. “This ...

The news came out on Tuesday that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) wanted to cut wrestling from the 2020 Olympic Games. As expected, there was a lot of anger towards that decision ...

20-year-old Amit Elor of Walnut Creek, CA is headed to the Olympics in Paris this summer with Team USA for wrestling. An East-Bay woman is headed to the Olympic Games in Paris this summer.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — J’den Cox walked off the mat after dropping a 2-2 decision to Kollin Moore at the U.S. Olympic wrestling trials on Friday night, leaving his shoes behind to a ...

As Kyle Dake tries for another Olympic medal, he's got a good friend on his side — former rival and 2020 Olympic gold medalist David Taylor. Olympics Kyle Dake chases Olympic wrestling gold ...