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(“freestyle wrestling” is a style of ‘amateur wrestling’ that is practiced throughout the ‘world’)
(along with ‘greco-roman’, it is 1 of the 2 styles of ‘wrestling’ contested in the ‘olympic games’)
(american ‘high school’ and ‘college’ wrestling is conducted under different rules and is termed ‘scholastic’ and ‘collegiate’ wrestling)
(‘freestyle wrestling’, like ‘collegiate wrestling’, has its greatest origins in “catch-as-catch-can wrestling” and, in both styles, the ultimate goal is to ‘throw’ and ‘pin’ your ‘opponent’ to the ‘mat’, which results in an immediate ‘win’)
(‘freestyle’ and ‘collegiate’ wrestling, unlike ‘greco-roman’, allow the use of the wrestler’s or his opponent’s legs in ‘offense’ and ‘defense’)
(‘freestyle wrestling’ brings together ‘traditional wrestling’, ‘judo’, and ‘sambo’ techniques.
(according to wrestling’s world governing body, “united world wrestling” (UWW), ‘freestyle wrestling’ is 1 of 4 main forms of ‘amateur competitive wrestling’ that are practiced internationally today)
(the other main forms of ‘wrestling’ are ‘greco-roman’ and ‘grappling’ (also called ‘submission wrestling’))
(the ‘executive board’ of the ‘international olympic committee’ (IOC) recommended dropping ‘wrestling’ as a ‘sport’ from the ‘2020 olympic games’, but the decision was later reversed by the ‘IOC’)
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