Hunyady says wrestling will remain an Olympic sport
GUELPH Zoltan Hunyady of Fergus, an alternate with the Canadian Olympic wrestling team christian louboutin replica in 2004, has a feeling that wrestling will remain in the Olympics.
"I think it's going to get back in," Hunyady said. "The only replica louboutin shoes reason I say that is because there are a lot of rumours that this was a sport that was kicked out because they were sure it would get back in as the last event.
In February, the International Olympic Committee voted to drop wrestling from the Olympic program beginning with the 2020 Summer Olympics. However, wrestling has been invited to apply for inclusion as the 28th sport for the 2020 Games and will christian louboutin shoes replica vie for that position with other sports including baseball/softball, karate, roller sports, sport climbing, squash, wakeboarding and wushu, a Chinese martial art.
"There's a big meeting at the end of this month, at the end of May, and that's when the IOC is going to sit down with FILA, our international body, and they're going to have representatives there from replica christian louboutin shoes all national federations like our Canadian Amateur Wrestling Association," Hunyady said. "They're going to put our case forward and they're going to plead for that last spot to get back in."
The International Olympic Committee's decision on the 28th and final sport at the 2020 Olympics is to be announced in September in a meeting at Buenos Aires where the site of those Olympics would also replica christian louboutin be announced.
Hunyady, who lost a couple of wrestle offs with Olympic gold medallist Daniel Igali, is the head coach for the Guelph Junior Wrestling Club and an assistant coach with the Guelph Wrestling Club and the Guelph Gryphons varsity team. The junior club replica louboutin shoes is affiliated with the Guelph Wrestling Club.
"They did ask questions right after it happened," Hunyady said of the wrestlers in the junior club. "What does that mean and what does replica christian louboutin it mean for wrestling in Canada and stuff like that and even (what it means) for our club? It was a bit of an eye opener to them, but we just kind of tell them that 'Hey, it's beyond our control and we can only do what we can do. If wrestling is out of the Olympics, we'll still be doing our thing here and we can't really change that.' "
While the junior club hasn't lost any christian louboutin shoes replica wrestlers yet due to the possibility of louboutin shoes replicawrestling not being in the Olympics, Hunyady is aware that there is a chance that could happen if his feeling on the vote isn't correct.
The 39 year old was a national champion in 2003 and 2005 and was inducted into the Guelph Gryphon sports hall of louboutin replica fame in 2006. He won OUA gold medals all five years of his eligibility and CIS gold twice.
"It's kind of crazy to suggest to pull a sport like wrestling that has so much history in the Olympics out of the Olympics," Hunyady said. "It's one of the most ancient sports. It's the most widely participated sport, I would say, in poor countries. The IOC is always talking and replica louboutin the Olympic Committee is always talking 'Hey, let's make this fair for the poorer countries.' Here's a sport that all you need replica christian louboutin shoesis a mat and some shoes and most kids would wrestle just in shorts in these countries. They don't even wrestle in shoes. Anybody can do this and now they want to pull it out of the Olympics."
A total louboutin shoes replicaof 71 wrestling medals were handed out at the London Olympics and they were spread between 29 countries including first time medallists replica louboutin Puerto Rico and Spain.
"It's one of those sports that you don't need a lot of money for and a lot of people can participate in," Hunyady said. "It builds a christian louboutin replica lot of fundamentals and it can build character."
"There are pictures with Iranian wrestlers louboutin replica and Russian wrestlers arm in arm holding each other's flag saying to put wrestling back into the Olympics," Hunyady said. "If that doesn't scream world unity, I don't know what does."