Wrestler Jordan Burroughs is the winner of this week’s Woly, the weekly award for U.S. Olympic-sports athletes. I used to give this award for USA TODAY, and it continued for a while after I departed. They stopped, so I’m restarting.…
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Today in wrestling’s Olympic battle
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
Hey, Dana White! Bjorn Rebney! What do you big-time MMA promoters think wrestling should do to stay in the Olympics? Wrestling’s leaders have indeed asked, and my former USA TODAY colleague Kelly Whiteside has the story on what they’re considering…
How modern pentathlon stayed in the Olympics (attn wrestling)
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
In elementary school, I used to wander into the Coliseum at the University of Georgia to watch wrestling. When UGA cut the varsity wrestling program, I drafted a complaint letter and had my classmates sign it. That letter was reprinted…
Wrestling leaders gearing up to fight … what, exactly?
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
USA Wrestling’s response to the sport’s threatened ouster from the Olympics has been impressive. They’ve done some international networking at the freestyle World Cup in Iran. They’re organizing at the grass roots. They’ve got an organization with a catchy name…
Wrestling’s way forward: Grappling in, Greco and whining out
by Beau Dure • • 3 Comments
Now that we’ve picked our jaws up off the floor from the IOC vote to squeeze wrestling out of the Olympic rings, let’s see what arguments work and which ones don’t. As you’d expect in the free-for-all, speak-before-reading atmosphere of…
Wrestling’s biggest fight: Getting back in the Games
by Beau Dure • • 2 Comments
Modern pentathlon seemed to be the likeliest sport to be eliminated from the Olympic program. Then perhaps taekwondo. Maybe an outside chance of one of the Asian-dominated net sports, badminton and table tennis. Wrestling? If you saw that coming, consider…
Monday Myriad: Feb. 4
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
Yes, this will be more of an evening thing from now on. The week’s headlines: – Jose Aldo defended his UFC featherweight title as Frankie Edgar suffered yet another close decision loss. The rest of the UFC 156 card scrambled…
Monday Myriad: U.S. athletes slide well
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Our sleds are better than yours. You may have heard Lolo Jones got second in her World Cup bobsled debut with driver Jazmine Fenlator, but U.S. success went farther than that. Elana Meyers and Tianna Madison, the latter also a…