lympic Wrestling By: Quinton Abrahamson Olympic wrestling is a grueling and very strenuous sport that most people could not commit to. The greats of the sport have put in enormous amounts of work to get as far as they got. Olympic wrestling is a very important sport and takes a lot of hard work to participate in. There’s a lot of history behind olympic wrestling and a lot of stuff that led up to it becoming an olympic sport. There are two types of wrestling in the olympics‚ which kind of tells you
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Justin Todd Mr. Linker ENG III Honors March 20‚ 2013 Wrestling in the Olympics Recently‚ the decision has been made to remove wrestling from the Olympics in the year 2020. This heavily debated decision was made because it is said that wrestling does not produce enough ticket sales and is not popular enough on the global scale. Therefore‚ it has been proposed that it be replaced with karate or rock climbing. With this major change in the Olympics‚ many people are going to suffer‚ such as returning
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Being part of the Camanche Wrestling program has made a major impact on my life‚ and without a doubt shaped me into the person I am today. The sport of wrestling is unlike any other sport‚ and teaches you many life lessons along with pushing you beyond your limits. Overall the sport has had a positive effect on my life from kindergarten to my senior year of high school. My wrestling journey through Camanche started at a young age. It was my kindergarten year and the class was getting flyers
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year of wrestling. During that season I was tested in how much I really believed in what my dad had been saying. My career in wrestling all started in eighth grade‚ after months of wrestling parents and wrestlers urging me and pushing me to join I gave in and went out for the junior high wrestling team. So‚ when wrestling season rolled around I signed up and showed up for practice ready to go. The season was great; I was with my friends doing as we pleased during practice
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One thing that I have learned from wrestling is self-confidence. It is just me out there against my opponent and no one to help me. So I learned to believe in myself because I would accomplish things that I didn’t think I could do. Last year I was wrestling a kid from Capital who won state the year before I was nervous to wrestle him. Well it was a close match and I was down by one point with only a few seconds left on the clock. But I finally just took my chance and hit a sweet double leg takedown
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competition‚ practiced by some of the most dominant men in history‚ wrestling has been around since ancient times. The first real traces of wrestling date back 5000 years to the time of the Sumerians. Sculptures and artwork also show evidence of wrestling in the egyptian culture. Almost all ancient cultures practiced some form of wrestling‚ but it was never done in an organized fashion until the Roman and Greek empires. For the Greeks‚ wrestling was a science and it represented important training for young
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Response 3 English 201 December 19‚ 2000 In The World of Wrestling by Roland Barthes‚ he takes the sport of wrestling and turns it into a modern day myth. He talks of the French wrestling scene describing the spectacle‚ the venues‚ and the wrestlers themselves. It is well known that wrestling itself isn’t real‚ just acting but it is still fancied by many people. The wrestler personalities are typically categorized the bastards and the good guys often having good fighting evil. The role a
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Southern Conference champion‚ another as a Southern Indiana Wrestling Conference‚ and Sectional champion. The best feeling out of all of them was me standing up on the first place at sectionals. I had dreamed about being number one on that podium for so long and it had finally came true. I learned that hard work‚ and dedication will pay off in the long run as long as you never give up. It all started at SIWC‚ also known as Southern Indiana Wrestling Conference. Coming into the conference I was ranked third
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Something I am very proud of was my wrestling career. Ever since I was four years old I was wrestling on the mat. Wrestling has shaped me into the man I am today by not only effecting me mentally but also physically. Wrestlers are known to be very hardworking and determined people. This grueling sport isn’t for everyone and many who begin wrestling when they are young will not stick with it. I believe this is why I was pulled to this sport so much and why I never quit; allowing myself to know that
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down and earns two points. The sport of wrestling has been around for along time and dates back to 700 B.C.E. It was mostly used for military fighting and combatant techniques in ancient armies. In ancient Greece‚ it became a sport to where the opponent was forced to submit to tears. It was a great sport back in the day and it still is. American wrestling was introduced during the Second World War when a few soldiers witnessed the Japanese performing wrestling moves and it looked fun. So‚ the soldiers
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