Wrestling Persuasive Essay
Justin Todd
Mr. Linker
ENG III Honors
March 20, 2013
Wrestling in the Olympics
Recently, the decision has been made to remove wrestling from the Olympics in the year 2020. This heavily debated decision was made because it is said that wrestling does not produce enough ticket sales and is not popular enough on the global scale. Therefore, it has been proposed that it be replaced with karate or rock climbing. With this major change in the Olympics, many people are going to suffer, such as returning Olympic placers or even nations that are successful in wrestling. Wrestling should not be removed from the Olympics because it is a historical part of the Olympics. Wrestling was one of the first five sports in the Olympics and the oldest sport …show more content…
In the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany he brought home the gold medal without giving up a single point. "They might have thought that wrestling was going to be an easy pass, but as you can see, there are places like this all over the world. It's just not Iowa.
There's places like this all over the world that will generate this type of enthusiasm for the sport,"
Gable said. (www.foxnews.com) That takes extreme dedication and devoting your life to wrestling. Wrestling is one of the hardest if not the hardest sports in the world; it has derived from many countries and is the main sport in many countries. Wrestling is a sport where no one else can be blamed if the wrestler is not successful. It is one person against another. It can be done effectively by people with significant disabilities. A man born with one leg, Anthony
Robles, has won an NCAA championship in wrestling. There has been high school matches where competitors with disabilities have competed and been successful. There is no other sport where people with disabilities can participate on an equal basis successfully with kids …show more content…
Wrestling is just as much of a mental sport as it is a physical sport. Being mentally tough is doing exactly what you don't want to do, exactly when you don't want to do it. The mind tires before the body.
Dan Gable quoted “Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.” Dan gable is a perfect example of what it takes to be successful in wrestling. He worked his butt off and devoted his life to wrestling and in the end it paid off. He walked away with an Olympic gold medal. Wrestling is a high school sport, college sport, Olympic sport, but most of all it is a life sport. It can prepare you for life better than any other sport and it is crazy for the most widespread sport in the world to be removed from the Olympic Games. Wrestling has been a major event since the beginning of Olympics. It was one of the first five sports and it would be ridiculous to even think about removing it. Since the beginning of the Olympics in ancient Greece, some type of wrestling has been included and been very popular. Today, wrestling is still a beloved sport in many countries, including Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, and the United States. Wrestling is embedded within the cultures of many countries and has a great deal of historical
Mr. Linker
ENG III Honors
March 20, 2013
Wrestling in the Olympics
Recently, the decision has been made to remove wrestling from the Olympics in the year 2020. This heavily debated decision was made because it is said that wrestling does not produce enough ticket sales and is not popular enough on the global scale. Therefore, it has been proposed that it be replaced with karate or rock climbing. With this major change in the Olympics, many people are going to suffer, such as returning Olympic placers or even nations that are successful in wrestling. Wrestling should not be removed from the Olympics because it is a historical part of the Olympics. Wrestling was one of the first five sports in the Olympics and the oldest sport …show more content…
In the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany he brought home the gold medal without giving up a single point. "They might have thought that wrestling was going to be an easy pass, but as you can see, there are places like this all over the world. It's just not Iowa.
There's places like this all over the world that will generate this type of enthusiasm for the sport,"
Gable said. (www.foxnews.com) That takes extreme dedication and devoting your life to wrestling. Wrestling is one of the hardest if not the hardest sports in the world; it has derived from many countries and is the main sport in many countries. Wrestling is a sport where no one else can be blamed if the wrestler is not successful. It is one person against another. It can be done effectively by people with significant disabilities. A man born with one leg, Anthony
Robles, has won an NCAA championship in wrestling. There has been high school matches where competitors with disabilities have competed and been successful. There is no other sport where people with disabilities can participate on an equal basis successfully with kids …show more content…
Wrestling is just as much of a mental sport as it is a physical sport. Being mentally tough is doing exactly what you don't want to do, exactly when you don't want to do it. The mind tires before the body.
Dan Gable quoted “Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.” Dan gable is a perfect example of what it takes to be successful in wrestling. He worked his butt off and devoted his life to wrestling and in the end it paid off. He walked away with an Olympic gold medal. Wrestling is a high school sport, college sport, Olympic sport, but most of all it is a life sport. It can prepare you for life better than any other sport and it is crazy for the most widespread sport in the world to be removed from the Olympic Games. Wrestling has been a major event since the beginning of Olympics. It was one of the first five sports and it would be ridiculous to even think about removing it. Since the beginning of the Olympics in ancient Greece, some type of wrestling has been included and been very popular. Today, wrestling is still a beloved sport in many countries, including Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, and the United States. Wrestling is embedded within the cultures of many countries and has a great deal of historical