Which sport should replace wrestling in the Olympics from 2020?

Wushu is better known as Kung Fu. So if you want someone not to pick a sport, call it by an obscure name that no-one's ever heard of.

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"Roller sports"? As in, Olympic roller derby?

I like baseball. Let's get it back but make the games relatively short.

Wait why was wrestling removed?

baseball can entirely fuck off from this

WHAT??? wrestling is the quintessential olympic sport! half-naked muscly boys rolling around and grunting!

Indeed, why not have cricket if you're going to have baseball? (xp)

Voted squash, 'cos I don't know why it's not in the Olympics in the first place

having read all those, i'm favouring karate or climbing

go with climbing

Baseball was fun when it was in.

Cimbing's a hobby, not a sport!

One handed internet surfing?

Roller sports
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Voted squash, 'cos I don't know why it's not in the Olympics in the first place

This. It's daft that it isn't there already.

None of these rubbish things

Squash, but as part of a scheme to further monetise the Olympics, it should be renamed 'Cola'.

They used to have Tug-o-war

Bring back croquet!

i can't believe squash isn't Olympic yet. it's super-global, with top players from countries that hardly ever win medals at the Games (Egypt, Malaysia) and is played by millions.

I think it's that wrestling has to compete with these now, not wrestling is out. I'm voting for wrestling, then.

downhill mountain biking or gtfo

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I'd like to see handball i.e. real handball, played with a wall and a ball and no equipment. That's a pure sport right there.

climbing probably better to do that to watch (assuming it's all on an indoor wall?)

better to do than to watch

baseball's the one sport i'd have bothered to go watch when london had the olympics. Figures they would reinstate it for a future olympics.

wrestling is the quintessential olympic sport! half-naked muscly boys rolling around and grunting!

Baseball sure, but Tracer otm. (Make it nude and even more Greek.)

Wrestling was part of the original ancient Olympics. Why the hell would they pitch it overboard?

As a lifelong karate stan, I'd enjoy watching it or wushu, assuming they weren't ruined with crazy rules the way taekwondo was

but WTF LEAVE WRESTLING IN THE OLYMPICS

bring back pankration!!

Squash is too fast for television, which counts against it, apparently.

Read it as Waterboarding. I'll go with waterboarding.

"For wrastling!!!!!!!!!"

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I've often wondered (well, not really - just now to be honest) how much of a transition it is to go from the solid, whitewashed walls of a trad squash court to the transparent perspex box that has to be used for tournament play - so people can actually see in. It must take a lot of getting used to.

Dropping wrestling is nonsense. The Olympics is the only time outside of a John Irving novel that people actually get to see it as a proper physical contest and not gross-out spangly entertainment. (Not that there's anything wrong with the latter, he hastily backpedals).

And golf can get lost. And I like golf.

wasn't the perspex box only perspex on the back wall? i do remember seeing it on grandstand or whatever on saturday afternoons back in the day. also, i think a brit is currently ranked #1 in the world so there's another potential medal right there.

Squash is too fast for television, which counts against it, apparently.

Don't believe this, I remember it used to occasionally be on telly back in the day (see post above). I mean, following the puck in ICe Hockey isn't exactly easy on TV either!

Isn't badminton the world's fastest sport?

Didn't look that way at the last Olympics

ha.

tennis 155mph, squash 175, badminton 205.

I think in tournaments you can have four glass or perspex walls (suitably opaque - or one-way? - on three walls within the playing area). I don't even remember the scoring system any more. It was always first-to-nine, only server can score; then I think they introduced a rule in the pro game to encourage more attacking play and shorten the rallies where the point just went to the server if the rally was beyond a certain length? And extended the games to 15 (or 11 for women?). I should Wiki this. It's 20 years since I was on a squash court.

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Isn't badminton the world's fastest sport?

depends what yr measuring the speed of - players or equipment? presumably the bullets in the shooting etc are faster

that would be a viable comparison if there were someone at the other end trying to return them.

now there's something i would watch

The NRA could sponsor it

Much rather get hit by a 200mph shuttlecock than a 175mph squash ball. 100mph cricket ball worse than either. 75mph football in the face even more painful. Getting trampled in the dressage possibly worst of all.

i can't believe squash isn't Olympic yet. it's super-global, with top players from countries that hardly ever win medals at the Games (Egypt, Malaysia) and is played by millions.

^^^THIS so much. I'm Malaysian and we would almost definitely have had a gold medal by now if squash was included. ;_;

so wrestling can be reinstated in September

It's so strange that they're getting rid of wrestling when you think back to how much the IOC loved Karelin. And ffs it's a foundational sport for the games. It's what, the third oldest sport in (Greek) Olympic history?

Oiled up semi-nude men grappling with each other is as old as the hills

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