Olympians Ban All Sports “The Americans Could Beat a European Country In”

            Earlier this week, wrestling was officially removed from the list of events that take place at the Summer Olympics every four years.  The U.S. Wrestling team has long been a powerhouse in each summer event; however, when asked for the rationale behind it, it was explained as ‘an unfair event’.  This was not the first time the Olympic committee has used this rhetoric.  Similar rhetoric was used after the Olympic softball was removed from the games.  Olympic softball had been around for a total of four Olympic games, with the U.S. having three gold medals and one silver medal in those four Olympic events.  Clarifying on the statements regarding wrestling and softball as ‘unfair’, the Olympic committee released the following statement:  “American and Russia have both dominated their respective sports for too long; America and Russia have jointly dominated wrestling and America dominated softball.  After establishing these far too long winning streaks, we must cut these sports out of our program.  It’s just not fair to all of the other small countries like China, Great Britain, France and Brazil to only have a few Olympic events to be good at.  While we’re at it here is a list of sports now allowed at the summer Olympics:”

·         Soccer

·         Table Tennis

·         Handball

·         Soccer

·         Not Basketball

·         Synchronized Swimming

In other news, Women’s Soccer may be banned, given the U.S.’s current Gold Medal streak of three.