Head of Buddhists of Russia critically treats idea of executive committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to exclude wrestling from the list of the Olympic sports

- If  wrestling disappears from the program of the Olympic Games, the mankind will lose more, than will find", - declared to Pandito Hambo a lama of Buddhist traditional Sangkhi (church) of Russia the Dam Ayusheev in TASS interview.

- At the heart of the idea of carrying out Olympic Games  wrestling lay. Athletes had to reveal the winner in wrestling. In the modern world people began to contact less with each other. And without natural opposition harmony of the world as wrestling is an opposition of two strong people, replaced with itself duels on knightly tournaments and the duels which have disappeared is broken, - head of Buddhists of Russia explained the position.

Buryatia is one of the recognized centers of wrestling.

Executive committee intention the IOC to exclude wrestling from the list of the Olympic sports earlier caused negative reaction of the secular authorities of Buryatia. In February the head of the republic Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn also called "wrong" this recommendation of executive committee. And a bit later the parliament of Buryatia accepted the address to the IOC and to the Russian Olympic Committee with a request to leave free-style wrestling in the program of summer Games.

Free-style wrestling in Buryatia - one of leading sports, along with firing from onions. More than 16 thousand people are engaged in it. For almost 50-year history of this sport in Buryatia one of leading schools of free-style wrestling in Russia is created. Pupils achieved noticeable successes. In particular, Boris Budayev won ranks of the world champion, Europe, Asia, the USSR, Russia. The summer Olympic Games in London in 2012 also became successful for female wrestling - Lyubov Volosova from Buryatia won a bronze award.

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