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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
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IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
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JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2013 | |
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H O U S E R E S O L U T I O N | |
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RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THAT THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE | |
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ABANDON ITS PLAN TO CUT WRESTLING FROM THE 2020 SUMMER OLYMPIC | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Guthrie, Johnston, Tomasso, Edwards, and Finn | |
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Date Introduced: March 26, 2013 | |
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Referred To: House read and passed | |
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WHEREAS, In a decision that stunned both the wrestling and sports communities |
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worldwide, the International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board has decided to eliminate |
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wrestling from the 2020 Olympic Summer Games; and |
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WHEREAS, Wrestling was one of the founding sports of both the ancient Olympic |
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Games and the modern Olympic Games. Wrestling was first introduced in the ancient Olympic |
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Games in 708 B.C. When the modern Olympic Games resumed in 1896, wrestling was one of the |
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sports played in competition and has been a permanent part of the Summer Olympic Games since |
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1904. Wrestling is a pure sport and a sport with deep roots and a passionate following across the |
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globe; and |
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WHEREAS, Wrestling has been an indelible part of the Olympic Games. Who can forget |
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such thrilling and miraculous moments such as the “Miracle on the Mat” at the 2000 Summer |
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Olympics in Sydney, Australia, when American Wrestler Rulon Gardner stunned the world and |
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defeated famed Russian Wrestler Alexander Karelin, a wrestler who, up to that point, had not lost |
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a match in thirteen years and had not lost a point in a match in six years. If the International |
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Olympic Committee does not reverse its ill-advised decision, moments like that will never happen |
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again; now, therefore be it |
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RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and |
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Providence Plantations hereby respectfully requests that the International Olympic Committee |
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abandons its decision to cut wrestling from the 2020 Summer Olympic Games; and be it further |
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RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
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transmit duly certified copies of this Resolution to President Barack Obama, the Leaders of the |
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United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, and the President of the |
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International Olympic Committee, Count Jacques Rogge. |
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