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supporters. TOGETHER we are powerful.
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Congratulations to the Oregon schools for their
performances in the various National
Tournaments. Clackamas was 3rd in the NJCAA
tournament; SOU was 2nd in the NAIA Nationals
and the Beavers were 8th in the NCAA Div. 1.
2013 National Wrestling Hall
of Fame class from the State of Oregon
Charlie Anthony---Ontario
HS.
Curt Berger----Hermiston HS
Kary Hadden---Sprague HS
Mike Mechling---Benson HS
Doug Muck---Rex Putnam HS &
Central Oregon CC
HD Waddel---Tigard HS
*****All of the foregoing
also coached at other high schools early in
their career.
Collectively these 6 served
as coaches for a total of 171 years! Let’s give
them the recognition they deserve by attending
the Hall of Fame banquet on April 6th
at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Tigard. There
is still time to purchase a ticket by sending a
check for $50 made out to the OR Chapter of
the NWHOF to Ron Sather, 678 SW 35th;
Corvallis, OR 97333(by April 1), OR you can buy
at the door for $60.
Tyrone Woods, who was
killed in the recent attack on the US Embassy in
Benghazi, will be also be recognized. Ty was a
former State place winner in wrestling at Oregon
City HS.
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We have included the following in
this brief:
1) A "WELL DONE" to all those young men and
women who competed successfully in the recent
Oregon State Wrestling Championships AND to
their coaches, parents, supporters and Brad
Garrett of the OSAA.. The Team Champions, by
division, were: David Douglas, Hermiston, Crook
County, Glide & Lowell--Special Congratulations
to them!!
2) A link to another very well written
article
about some possible behind the scenes reasons
for the IOC decision to eliminate wrestling from
the Olympics---and how the decision might be
changed.
3) A 'hats off' to both Southern Oregon
University and Clackamas Community College for
their outstanding performances in their
respective National Tournaments! Southern Oregon
had a record 4 National Champions and the
Outstanding Wrestler, but finished a very close
second in the NAIA team race. Clackamas had 2
National Champions and finished 3rd in the NJCAA
National tournament.
4) Iran, Russia and the United States finished
1st, 2nd & 3rd respectively in the World Cup in
Tehran. A jam packed Coliseum of spectators
joined the teams in chanting 'The Olympics
without wrestling--Never, Never, Never'.
5) Mitch Seavey, from a wrestling family, won
the 31st annual Iditarod
Sled Dog Race. For the unitiated the race is an
approximately 1,000 mile, 11 day marathon from
Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. Mitch's father was a
wrestling coach and finished 3rd in the first
Iditarod, Mitch wrestled at Pacific U and his
son Dallas was member of a US Junior World
wrestling team. Mitch became the oldest person
to ever win the race and his son Dallas is the
youngest to have won. Wrestling tenacity at
work!!
***Next up the Beavers at the NCAA in Des
Moines, Iowa***
How wrestling lost the Olympics (pdf) More
about the IOC's decision to remove Wrestling
from the games starting in 2020 in an article
written by John Irving
To Fans of Wrestling,
Some of you may be aware of the action taken by
the International Olympic
Committee's Executive Board yesterday to DROP
ALL WRESTLING FROM
THE OLYMPIC GAMES BEGINNING IN 2020. This
decision was made a by
a group of 15 people on the IOC Board. The
Restore College Wrestling
Committee has a response to that decision that
we are sharing.
We RCWOR Steering Committee) have lived
long enough to witness the
actions of many rather devious political people
who 'load the deck' so that
they can achieve an end that flies in the face
of logic. We suspect this is
another of those situations.
If you examine the IOC Executive Board you
see the following countries
represented: Belgium, Singapore, Germany(x2),
Great Britain, Australia, Rep
of South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Switzerland,
Ireland, Spain, Ukraine,
Guatemala. Of the TOP 10 countries based on
overall wrestling medals in
London NOT A SINGLE COUNTRY was represented on
the IOC Board. In fact, of
the top 20 countries in wrestling, based on the
2012 Olympic Games results,
ONLY Ukraine was represented on the IOC Board.
If you are called upon to
make a challenging decision, why not make one
which will not create lots of
negative feedback in your own country!!
We think all we are seeing here is that we (the
wrestling community) have
again been remiss in taking care of politics as
it affects Our Sport.
We noticed that the announcement by the IOC
included a couple of things you
might anticipate in a situation like this:
1) The voting of individual Board members was
SECRET. A flag right away.
Perhaps they are afraid of the Russian Mafia, or
the Iranian Basij, or
ALL those who know the value of Our Sport?
2) The statement by the IOC Board was that the
decision could be reversed in
a subsequent Board meeting, but that "it was
very unlikely in a situation
like this".
We think this is a well conceived ploy, to
try to get people to
concede the decision. We suggest that it is VERY
UNLIKELY that the 15 Soviet
block countries, the US, Iran, Canada, Japan(and
more) will buy into to the
finality of this decision. We believe that the
IOC Executive Board will only
succeed in getting these countries to get better
organized and unite in
the quest to restore man's oldest sport to the
Games.
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