Full Text of HR0169 98th General Assembly
HR0169ham001 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| | 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 169
| | 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ___. Amend House Resolution 169 by replacing | | 3 | | everything after the heading with the following:
| | 4 | | "WHEREAS, The executive board of the International Olympic | | 5 | | Committee (IOC) reviewed 26 sports on its
summer program and | | 6 | | decided to eliminate wrestling as an Olympic sport, stunning | | 7 | | the world's wrestlers, who see their sport as
popular and | | 8 | | steeped in history as old as the Olympics themselves; and
| | 9 | | WHEREAS, While wrestling will be included at the 2016 | | 10 | | Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, it will not be included
in the 2020 | | 11 | | Olympic Games; and
| | 12 | | WHEREAS, The executive board of the IOC voted after | | 13 | | reviewing an IOC program commission report that
analyzed 39 | | 14 | | criteria, including TV ratings, ticket sales, global | | 15 | | participation, and popularity; and
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| | 1 | | WHEREAS, According to IOC documents, wrestling ranked | | 2 | | "low" in several of the technical criteria; and
| | 3 | | WHEREAS, The decision to phase out wrestling will have a | | 4 | | detrimental impact on many teams
around the world, including | | 5 | | the United States, whose wrestling medals are only outnumbered | | 6 | | by
swimming and track and field; and
| | 7 | | WHEREAS, Wrestling is also one of the most popular youth | | 8 | | sports in the United States, with nearly
275,000 competitors | | 9 | | from 2010 to 2011; and
| | 10 | | WHEREAS, Wrestling is a diverse, popular, and historic | | 11 | | sport, and it is fitting and proper that the IOC keep
wrestling | | 12 | | in the Olympic Games after the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, | | 13 | | Brazil; therefore, be it
| | 14 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | | 15 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | | 16 | | we request that the IOC revisit the decision to drop wrestling | | 17 | | from the Olympic Games after the 2016
Games in Rio de Janeiro, | | 18 | | Brazil, and urge the IOC to keep wrestling as an Olympic sport; | | 19 | | and be it further
| | 20 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be |
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| | 1 | | delivered to Richard Bender, Executive Director of
USA | | 2 | | Wrestling; James Considine, Illinois State Director of USA | | 3 | | Wrestling; and the United States Olympic
Committee.". |
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