TNA Respond To Olympic Wrestling Being Dropped

TNA Wrestling have released a statement concerning the earlier news of the IOC announcing their plans to drop wrestling as an event from the 2020 Olympic Games.

In the statement, TNA criticize the decision to keep ‘recreational sports’ such as badminton and handball and “delete one of the oldest Olympic sport that premiered in the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896.”

The statement also includes comments from Kurt Angle, who won gold as part of the 1996 US Olympic team.

“The wrestling community is in a state of shock with this decision– we can not sit back and allow this to happen. I will do whatever it takes and work with my company TNA WRESTLING and the competitive wrestling community to determine what we need to do to reverse this decision.” said Angle.

The statement goes on to include comments from TNA President Dixie Carter, who calls on the entire wrestling community to join together and fight this decision.

“The news from the IOC is very disheartening to all of us at TNA as well as the tens of millions around the world who either participate in amateur wrestling or enjoy watching it in its entertainment form,” stated Carter.  “We need to join together right now. We encourage our own IMPACT WRESTLING community, WWE and wrestling organizations worldwide as well as competitive amateur coaches and athletes to have a unified voice to make sure wrestling will be an Olympic sport in 2020.”

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