IOC decision is expected to start at 9 a.m. Central

[TomM]

IOC decision is expected to start at 9 a.m. Central,
with a press conference to follow after the decision is announced, at approximately 11 a.m.

http://www.examiner.com/article/dan-gable-museum-to-show-ioc-wrestling-decision-live-sunday-morning

[bigoil]

Don't screw this up IOC!

[TomM]

IOC vote on Olympic wrestling available for viewing online Sunday morning
http://www.examiner.com/article/ioc-vote-on-olympic-wrestling-available-for-viewing-online-sunday-morning

Wrestling fans may watch the IOC meeting online by visiting Olympic.org.
http://www.olympic.org/news/programme-of-the-live-transmission-of-the-125th-ioc-session-in-buenos-aires-argentina/208620


Wrestling fans may watch the IOC meeting online by visiting Olympic.org.

Note that all times listed are for the Buenos Aires meeting site. To figure times for where you live, subtract one hour for the Eastern time zone, subtract two hours for Central time, three hours for Mountain, and four hours for the Pacific time zone. For instance, that means the meeting begins at 8 a.m. Eastern, 5 a.m. Pacific.

After the meeting opens, the IOC president's opening remarks are slated for 9:30 a.m. Buenos Aires time. At 10:15, there will be a vote on the IOC Executive Committee proposal for 25 core Olympic sports effective with the 2020 Games, essentially an up-or-down vote on that committee's February 2013 decision to eliminate wrestling as a core sport. According to TheMat.com, it is highly expected that the entire IOC membership will approve the Executive Committee's decision from seven months ago. This is expected from FILA, the international wrestling federation (since it's rare for the entire IOC to overrule an Executive Committee decision), which has another opportunity to find its way back into the Olympic programme for 2020 and 2024 in a vote later Sunday.

At 10:30 a.m., the three sports vying for a place in the Olympic program for 2020 and 2024 will make their individual presentations, starting with the baseball-softball bid... followed by squash... then wrestling at 11:30 a.m. Members of the wrestling presentation team, led by FILA president Nenad Lalovic, include 1988 Olympian and former University of Nebraska wrestler Jim Scherr, 2004 Olympic bronze medalist Lisa Legrand of France, two-time Olympic medalist Carol Huyhn of Canada, and 2000 gold medalist Daniel Igali of Nigeria and Canada.

A vote to determine which of these three sports will be added to the Olympic program for the two Games after 2016 will start at noon Buenos Aires time. Approximately 100 IOC members will be casting votes at the meeting.

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[TomM]

Wrestling 'presentation' just concluded...
http://www.olympic.org/2020-host-city-election

[TomM]

Secret ballot... electronic voting...

[bigG]

Come on!

[TomM]

IOC Vote in: Wrestling IN for 2020

[dman]

YES!!!

[bigG]

One would hope it a no-brainer. Scary to even think they considered dusting perhaps the oldest Olympic sport.

[bigoil]

Thank Goodness, now make it permanent.

[TomM]

JOY HERE!!!!

[TomM]

Wrestling wins IOC vote for 2020 Olympic Games
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2013/09/08/olympic-wrestling-wins-ioc-vote-2020/2781887/

[DKelly28]

Congrats to Wrestling, it deserved it. I think Baseball and Softball will be back in soon as well. Those two games are a lot more global now than back when they cut them. To say that they wouldn't have an audience if televised is silly.

[TomM]

I read some material that indicates/suggests some of the problem for baseball/softball is due to possibility of MLB players not playing and drug use in MLB.