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1 | | WHEREAS, According to IOC documents, wrestling ranked |
2 | | "low" in several of the technical criteria; and
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3 | | WHEREAS, The decision to phase out wrestling will have a |
4 | | detrimental impact on many teams
around the world, including |
5 | | the United States, whose wrestling medals are only outnumbered |
6 | | by
swimming and track and field; and |
7 | | WHEREAS, Wrestling is also one of the most popular youth |
8 | | sports in the United States, with nearly
275,000 competitors |
9 | | from 2010 to 2011; and
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10 | | WHEREAS, Wrestling is a diverse, popular, and historic |
11 | | sport, and it is fitting and proper that the IOC keep
wrestling |
12 | | in the Olympic Games after the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, |
13 | | Brazil; therefore, be it
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14 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
15 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
16 | | we request that the IOC revisit the decision to drop wrestling |
17 | | from the Olympic Games after the 2016
Games in Rio de Janeiro, |
18 | | Brazil, and urge the IOC to keep wrestling as an Olympic sport; |
19 | | and be it further
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20 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be |