Wrestling has won back its spot as an Olympic sport and will be contested at both the 2020 and 2024 Games.
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In a vote take by International Olympic Committee members in Buenos Aires yesterday, wrestling held off rivals squash and baseball.
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Delta state's Lucky Opiated in blue outfit lucks hornets with Adibo Dick of Bayelsa state in the men's 84kg weight class free style at the just concluded Maiden Chief E K Clerk wrestling championship in Warri, Delta state. Adibo Dick won the bout.
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Wrestling had been an Olympic sport for more than a hundred years until being dropped from its programme earlier in 2013.
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However, wrestling needed just one round of voting to secure its spot in Japan for seven years' time, collecting 49 of the 95 cast.
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The joint bid by baseball/softball was second with 24 votes while squash received 22.
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Nenad Lalovic of Serbia, who took over as president of the International Wrestling Federation in February, said: "We made mistakes but we decided to listen and learn and those mistakes will not happen again.
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"We have modernised our Federation, our constitution has become much more democratic with more women and athletes in the administration and with the referees absolutely independent."
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The decision comes less than 24 hours after Tokyo were awarded the 2020 Games at the expense of Istanbul and Madrid.