Greco-Roman wrestling may be excluded from Paris Olympics 2024: Report

By   - 20/06/2020

A piece of bad news for Greco-Roman wrestlers as there is a possibility that the classical wrestling style may not be part of Paris Olympics 2024. According to WrestlingUA’s report, a Russian news daily, the President of Wrestling Federation of Azerbaijan Namik Aliyev who is also bureau member of United World Wrestling (UWW) says that it is possible that ‘Greco-Roman wrestling will no longer be in the Olympic Games program’. Reportedly, the step is being taken to promote beach wrestling.

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WrestlingUA’s quoting Dagestan Wrestling adds that the Greco-Roman style has been removed from the Youth Olympic Games which will be held in Dakar, Senegal in 2022. Instead, they have included beach wrestling in the tournament. “Apparently, the Greco-Roman style will come out of the program of the Olympics-2024. We have been declaring our athletes to compete in beach wrestling for several years. Last year we won two medals at the World Games. Oyan Nazariani became the world champion. From now on, we will strengthen this type of martial art,” Namik told Dagestan Wrestling.

WrestlingTV tried to confirm it from UWW but they were unavailable.

On March 31, according to Bulgarian Federation, Beach Wrestling is being planned to be included in 2024 Paris Olympics. The report further elaborated this was being done bring gender parity and therefore only women beach wrestlers would be allowed to compete in it. But now, if Greco-Roman wrestling is being omitted, Greco-Roman wrestlers might be forced to switch to beach wrestling too.

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