re-instate wrestling<\/a> as an Olympics sport, beating out baseball, softball, and squash.<\/p>\nWrestling definitely belongs, being a staple of the Olympics as practiced by the ancient Greeks.\u00a0 I don\u2019t understand why baseball got cut from the modern games.\u00a0 Yes, our \u201cWorld Series\u201d doesn\u2019t exactly feature participants from the entire world, but it surely has a bigger following than many Olympics sports, such as water polo.\u00a0 Pretty much the entire Western hemisphere\u2013the U.S., Canada, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and much of the rest of Latin America\u2013love baseball, as do a number of other countries, particularly the one that is hosting the Olympics.<\/p>\n
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