Americans should "join hands" with Russians and Iranians for the sake of wrestling preservation on Games - the Roll Gardner

Olympic champions the Roll Gardner and Henry Sekhudo declared that intend to use the best efforts that their sport - Greco-Roman wrestling - remained in the program of Olympic Games. About it Garnder and Sekhudo, and also other wrestlers, declared during a specialized festive event in the USA.

The international Olympic committee/the IOC / declared that, since 2020, wrestling will be excluded from the program of Games. However later it was specified that wrestling will compete with seven other sports for one "vacant" place in the program of the summer Olympic Games.

According to Gardner, wrestling needs reforms, and the best way to changes - to strike up new acquaintances in a framework the IOC. "Everything is too politized", - Gardner who has won on the Olympic Games of the 2000th year Sydney the well-known Russian Alexander Karelin believes. "But even in the worst case for us, we shouldn't sit, idly. It is necessary to join hands with the Russian wrestlers, with the Iranian. It is necessary to be on friendly terms with anyone if it goes to the wrestling benefit", - Gardner is convinced.

Bill Sherr, the ex-world champion agrees with the Roll, and nowadays - the sports official also. "It is all about the international sports policy. Sometimes officials have good intentions. But sometimes they are mistaken - as in this case", - Sherr told.

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