WRESTLING WILL KEEP its place for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo after winning the vote ahead of baseball/softball and squash.
In February the International Olympic Committee had recommended that wrestling was dropped from the Games after assessing the performance of all 26 sports at London 2012.
However, after competing with seven other sports – baseball/softball, squash, karate, sport climbing, wakeboarding, wushu and roller sports – it has been reinstated after a ballot at the IOC meeting in Buenos Aires on Sunday.
Wrestling, which combines freestyle and Greco-Roman events, has been included in every Olympic Games since they began in 1896, apart from Paris in 1900.
In London, 344 athletes competed for 11 medals, with Japan and Russia claiming eight of them.
The announcement will come as a blow for squash and baseball/softball, wit those disciplines having reached the final round of voting.
Baseball and softball have been absent from the games since 2008 in Beijing, while squash was aiming to become part of the Olympics for the first time.
