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One of the main talking points ahead of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games has been numerical gender parity on the field of play with equal representation of male and female athletes. Within the U.S. Olympic movement, that milestone has been the norm for multiple Games. The infrastructure around women’s sports has grown dramatically since the […]
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The Black Hills Nationals Wrestling Tournament is moving to Rapid City from April 4–6, 2025, moving after 20 years in Spearfish, South Dakota. The Black Hills Nationals Wrestling Tournament, the Central States Fair, Inc., and the Rapid City Sports Commission made the announcement. The event draws 7,000 fans and participants and generates around $4 million […]
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The Women’s Collegiate Wrestling Coalition has announced the sites and dates for the eight regional competitions in 2025 that will serve as qualifiers for the national championships at Xtreme Arena in Coralville, Iowa, from March 7–8, 2025. Women’s wrestling is an NCAA Emerging Sport for Women at all three NCAA divisions. The NCAA Committee on […]
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There are wrestling hotbeds throughout the United States and while most know of the tradition of Iowa and Oklahoma State collegiately, there’s always been one place where the sport’s heartbeat pumps faster and louder than others – Pennsylvania. It’s the region that develops as many elite wrestlers as there are trees throughout the commonwealth. Perhaps […]
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The Big 12 Conference and the Tulsa Sports Commission have announced that the Big 12 Wrestling Championship will remain at Tulsa’s BOK Center through 2028. Tulsa has hosted the tournament since 2017. The 2024 Big 12 Wrestling Championship is scheduled for March 9–10 and will be the eighth consecutive championship at the site. “Hosting the […]
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The NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics has recommended Divisions I, II and III sponsor legislation to add a national collegiate women’s wrestling championship, with the projected first NCAA championship occurring in winter 2026. Before the committee can make a recommendation to add a championship for an emerging sport, 40 schools must sponsor it at a […]
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USA Wrestling has announced its 2024 16U and 14U Girls National Dual Meet Championships will be held at Grand Park Event Center in Westfield, Indiana, from June 19–22 while the event will also return to the Grand Park Event Center in 2025. This will be the first time that this combined competition has been held. […]
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USA Wrestling’s 2024 Boys 16U National Dual Meet Championships will be held at Zions Bank Real Academy in Herriman, Utah from June 12-15, 2024 before returning to the same location in 2025. The tournament features state-level teams from USA Wrestling’s state associations from across the nation competing in dual meets in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. […]
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USA Wrestling’s 2024 Kids Freestyle and Greco-Roman National Championships will be held at the ImOn Ice Arena in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from June 28-30, 2024, and the event will return to the destination in both 2025 and 2026. The two USA Wrestling events feature the nation’s top boys in the 8U, 10U, 12U and 14U […]
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1984 Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton, multi-world and Olympic medals wrestler Bruce Baumgartner and Dale Neuburger, treasurer for World Aquatics and known for his longtime work throughout the Olympic movement both internationally and within the United States, will be recognized by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Endowment during the annual awards ceremony at […]
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.@DelawareTourism has announced it will reopen the Sports Tourism Capital Investment Fund for applications on August 1, 2024, with a deadline of September 13. The fund provides financial support to sports facilities that hold events throughout the year.
The Pulaski County Board of Supervisors in Virginia have announced the creation of the Pulaski County Sports Tourism & Entertainment Authority. The new division will manage the county’s sports tourism and entertainment facilities and assets.
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Doping, historically linked to the Olympic Summer Games for decades, is not going away as a topic of discussion at #Paris2024 as the dispute between U.S. and world doping officials has exploded into public view this week.
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