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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 169
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ___. Amend House Resolution 169 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the heading with the following:
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| 4 | | "WHEREAS, The executive board of the International Olympic |
| 5 | | Committee (IOC) reviewed 26 sports on its
summer program and |
| 6 | | decided to eliminate wrestling as an Olympic sport, stunning |
| 7 | | the world's wrestlers, who see their sport as
popular and |
| 8 | | steeped in history as old as the Olympics themselves; and
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| 9 | | WHEREAS, While wrestling will be included at the 2016 |
| 10 | | Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, it will not be included
in the 2020 |
| 11 | | Olympic Games; and
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| 12 | | WHEREAS, The executive board of the IOC voted after |
| 13 | | reviewing an IOC program commission report that
analyzed 39 |
| 14 | | criteria, including TV ratings, ticket sales, global |
| 15 | | participation, and popularity; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, According to IOC documents, wrestling ranked |
| 2 | | "low" in several of the technical criteria; and
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| 3 | | WHEREAS, The decision to phase out wrestling will have a |
| 4 | | detrimental impact on many teams
around the world, including |
| 5 | | the United States, whose wrestling medals are only outnumbered |
| 6 | | by
swimming and track and field; and
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| 7 | | WHEREAS, Wrestling is also one of the most popular youth |
| 8 | | sports in the United States, with nearly
275,000 competitors |
| 9 | | from 2010 to 2011; and
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| 10 | | WHEREAS, Wrestling is a diverse, popular, and historic |
| 11 | | sport, and it is fitting and proper that the IOC keep
wrestling |
| 12 | | in the Olympic Games after the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, |
| 13 | | Brazil; therefore, be it
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| 14 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
| 15 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
| 16 | | we request that the IOC revisit the decision to drop wrestling |
| 17 | | from the Olympic Games after the 2016
Games in Rio de Janeiro, |
| 18 | | Brazil, and urge the IOC to keep wrestling as an Olympic sport; |
| 19 | | and be it further
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| 20 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be |