It happened on Saturday and Sunday at Ancient Olympia. It was an eight-country wrestling tournament. The event was part of a campaign to keep the sport from being dropped after the 2016 Games.
Wrestlers who participated were granted rare access to compete at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in the western Peloponnese. The site at Ancient Olympia is normally off limits to sporting competitions and is used for the Olympic flame lighting ceremony only.
Wrestling was one of the sports at the ancient Olympics, which also included running, boxing, long jump, javelin and discus.
The International Olympics Committee (IOC) in February dropped wrestling from a list of core sports, leaving it to compete for a place in the 2020 Games against baseball and squash.
A decision will be taken in September, when the IOC’s executive board meets in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to select the host city for those Olympics, with Istanbul, Tokyo and Madrid in the running.
The campaign to restore wrestling to the Olympics has received enthusiastic backing from Greek sporting authorities and the Greek government.
