{"id":6179,"date":"2013-02-16T20:46:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T01:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/?p=6179"},"modified":"2013-02-16T15:49:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T20:49:19","slug":"dan-gable-asks-for-your-help-with-keeping-wrestling-in-the-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/w6179\/dan-gable-asks-for-your-help-with-keeping-wrestling-in-the-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Gable Asks For Your Help With Keeping Wrestling In The Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States wrestling team and Dan Gable are asking for your help to keep wrestling as an Olympic event. The International,\u00a0Olympic,\u00a0Committee this week recommended dropping the sport &#8220;a staple of the games since they began in 1896 &#8220;beginning in 2020. A final decision is expected later this year.<\/p>\n<p>A,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/02\/14\/olympic-wrestling-canceled-gay-conspiracy-russian-coach-controversial-claim_n_2680518.html \"target=\"_blank\">Russian coach<\/a>,\u00a0furious about the International Olympic Committee&#8217;s,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/02\/12\/wrestling-dropped-from-olympics_n_2667664.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003 \"target=\"_hplink\">recent decision to remove wrestling from the 2020 Olympics<\/a>,\u00a0has made an inflammatory claim about who is to blame for the move.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Russian sports site R-Sport, Russian wrestling coach Vladimir Uruimagov said that the,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.rsport.ru\/olympics\/20130212\/644903540.html \"target=\"_hplink\">IOC&#8217;s decision was evidence of a gay conspiracy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dan Gable, wrestling legend, talks about the history of American wrestling. The dedication and contribution of wrestlers in their pursuit to become champions.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hKLFG4dt2ZE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Share this and spread the message if you would like to see Wrestling remain in the Olympic games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States wrestling team and Dan Gable are asking for your help to keep wrestling as an Olympic event. The International,\u00a0Olympic,\u00a0Committee this week recommended dropping the sport &#8220;a staple of the games since they began in 1896 &#8220;beginning in 2020. A final decision is expected later this year. A,\u00a0Russian coach,\u00a0furious about the International Olympic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,5,14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wrestling","category-olympic","category-save-wrestling","category-video"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/save-wrestling.png?fit=517%2C255&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B7Di-1BF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}