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IOC leaders have dropped wrestling for the 2020 Games in a surprise decision to scrap one of the oldest sports on the Olympic program.
The IOC executive board decided Tuesday to retain modern pentathlon – the event considered most at risk – and remove wrestling instead from its list of core sports.
The decision, announced by the IOC, was first reported by The Associated Press.
The IOC board acted after reviewing the 26 sports on the current Olympic program. Eliminating one sport allows the International Olympic Committee to add a new sport to the program later this year.
Our visual tribute to Macho Man Randy Savage who died today in a car crash in Florida.
Tributes for the wrestling superstar poured in from his fellow wrestlers.
Former wrestler Randy Savage dead in car crash
Former wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage has died in a car accident Friday in Tampa, Florida.
Savage was reportedly driving his Jeep Wrangler in Florida when it veered off the highway and into a median, after he suffered a heart attack behind the wheel. His wife, Lynn, who he’d been married to for a little over a year, survived the crash with only minor injuries, while Savage died of his.
