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Girl loses in Colorado wrestling quarterfinals

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Karam leans on wrestling to aid racing career

By LUKE MEREDITH - Associated Press

IOC President Jacques Rogge attends its executive board meeting at the SportAccord International Convention in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. The race for the IOC presidency, the bidding for the 2020 Summer Games and the fate of wrestling will be on full display at the meeting. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Wrestling, baseball-softball, squash on IOC shortlist for 2020 Olympics

By Stephen Wilson - Associated Press

Wrestlers in the 120 kilogram weight class Komeil Ghasemi, left, of Iran, and USA's Tervel Dlagnev of Columbus, Ohio, weigh-in during a news conference at U.N. headquarters, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, announcing the "Rumble on the Rails" wrestling exhibition between the teams from Iran, Russia and the United States. The exhibition, to be held at New York's Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday, is designed to highlight the sport's international appeal and popularity. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Wrestlers from U.S., Russia, Iran unite for common cause: Olympic status

By Rachel Cohen - Associated Press

**FILE** In this Sept. 27, 2000, file photo, USA's Rulon Gardner waves the American flag following his gold medal win against three-time Olympic gold medalist Alexandre Kareline, of Russia, in the Greco-Roman 130 kg final wrestling match at the Summer Games in Sydney. Gardner's epic upset of Russian wrestling great Alexander Karelin in 2000 remains one of the most compelling moments of the modern Olympics. Starting in 2020, youngsters looking to Gardner and Karelin for inspiration won't have a chance to excel on the sport's biggest stage. Gardner and nearly everyone else associated with the sport in the U.S. were jolted Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 when International Olympic Committee leaders dropped wrestling from the Summer Games. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara, File)

Rulon Gardner, U.S. wrestlers stunned by IOC decision to drop sport

By Luke Meredith - Associated Press

**FILE** In this Monday, Aug. 6, 2012 file photo Keitani Graham of Micronesia competes against Charles Edward Betts of the United States, right, during the 84-kg Greco-Roman wrestling competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London. An official familiar with the decision says IOC leaders have dropped wrestling from the program for the 2020 Olympics. In a surprise decision Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013, the official tells The Associated Press that the IOC executive board decided to retain modern pentathlon and remove wrestling instead. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

IOC decision to eliminate wrestling from 2020 Olympics ‘mind-boggling’

By Stephen Wilson - Associated Press

**FILE** The Aug. 6, 2012 file photo shows Sayed Abdelmonem Hamed of Egypt competing against Zaur Kuramagomedov of Russia (in blue) during the 60-kg Greco-Roman wrestling competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. IOC leaders have dropped wrestling for the 2020 Games in a surprise decision to scrap one of the oldest sports on the Olympic program. The IOC executive board decided Tuesday, Feb. 12, 1013 to retain modern pentathlon — the event considered most at risk — and remove wrestling instead from its list of core sports. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

LANCASTER: In eliminating wrestling, IOC grapples with common sense and loses

By Marc Lancaster - The Washington Times

Republican candidate for Senate Linda McMahon addresses her Democratic rival, Rep. Christopher S. Murphy, in an Oct. 7, 2012, debate in Rocky Hill, Conn. The two are vying for the seat from Connecticut being vacated by Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent. Mrs. McMahon ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2010. (Associated Press)

For McMahon, WWE role wrestled to mat?

By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times

Kerry McCoy is in his fourth season as Maryland's wrestling coach, and he's also helping out with the Olympic team. (Maryland Athletics)

London Olympics 2012: Wrestling coach Kerry McCoy still an Olympian at heart

By Carla Peay - The Washington Times

Helen Maroulis, a wrestler from Rockville, Md, may be the best U.S. wrestler in her weight class. She is currently training at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. She and other members of the U.S. team, as well as wrestlers from other countries, spent time training together, Thursday,Mar. 1, 2012. Maroulis and Venezuelan wrestler Marcia Andrades practice a two-arms one leg professional wrestling move. (Bryan Oller/Special to the Washington Times)

Rockville’s Maroulis eyes spot on U.S. Olympic women’s wrestling squad

By Dan Friedell - Special to The Washington Times

Wrestler refuses to face girl, defaults

Associated Press

GOP hopeful back in Senate race

By Susan Haigh - Associated Press

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