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Sun Feb 17, 2013, 02:17 PM Feb 2013

No more wrestling at the Olympic Games

I am not much of a sports fan, don't watch much of the Olympics, certainly not wrestling.

But when the Olympic committee announced the elimination of wrestling, I could not help remembering that many of the Israeli athletes, coaches and referees massacred in Munich in 1972, were wrestlers.

Just a sad memory.

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