Tag: wrestling
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Nenad Lalovic, elected president of United World Wrestling
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Sept 7: Nenad Lalovic, who led last year’s Save Olympic Wrestling movement, was elected president of United World Wrestling by acclamation Sunday in Tashkent. Lalovic marked his election, and by coincidence the eve of the one-year anniversary of wrestling’s re-admission to the Olympic Programme, by presenting member countries at the FILA Congress a…
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GB in the 2013 SportAccord World Combat Games
Saint Petersburg, Oct 26, 2013: After nine days of intense competitions, the 2013 SportAccord World Combat Games have come to an end. The last competitions of today were in Fencing and Wushu. This second edition of the World Combat Games saw hard fought battles in 15 different martial arts and combat sports, both Olympic and…
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Wrestling added to Olympic programme
Buenos Aires, Sept 8, 2013: In the latest step in the process of evaluating and refining the Olympic Programme, the sport of wrestling was elected today as an additional sport for the Summer Olympic Games of 2020 and 2024. The decision was made at the 125th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Buenos…
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IOC strips Uzbek wrestler Soslan Tigiev
Lausanne – Switzerland, Nov 07: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it has disqualified Uzbek wrestler Soslan Tigiev from the men’s 74kg freestyle wrestling event during the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London, where he placed third. Immediately after his participation in the event on 10 August, Tigiev, 29, provided a urine…