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Wrestling

two Bolivian women square off in a wrestling ring

How Indigenous women revolutionized Bolivian wrestling

Sports

The more they fight, the more popular they become — and the more pushback they receive.

Man in wrestling ring being tackled with referee in background

An American tradition took shape in Mexico — and then returned to the US

Culture
Wrestlers Radoslaw Baran (POL) of Poland and Reza Yazdani (IRI) of Iran compete in the ​2016 Rio Olympics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

After a scuffle, Iran welcomes US wrestling team to compete at World Cup

Global Politics
Harry Fujiwara, a former wrestler known as "Mr. Fuji," 1999.

Mr. Fuji, a prankster in and out of the ring, dies at age 82

Culture
The band El Conjunto Nueva Ola performs in Mexican wrestler masks. In fact, they wore their masks the whole time Betto Arcos talked to them for this story. He never saw their faces.

This Cumbia band plays covers of the Sex Pistols — in Mexican wrestler masks

Arts, Culture & Media
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Chicken Wilson competing in Peru's "Lucha Libro" - writing a story story in five minutes.

Peru makes book writing into a spectator sport and invites aspiring writers into combat

Arts, Culture & Media

In Peru, where it’s hard to get a book contract, young writers put on wrestling masks and duke it out in the ring. But instead of wrestling, they’re writing short stories, in front of an audience – on a clock.

International Olympic Committee Reverses Decision, Reinstates Wrestling

Sports

Months after deciding to drop wrestling from the Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has reversed course and decided the sport will be in the line-up until at least 2024. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with US women’s team member Elena Pirozhkova.

Olympic Wrestlers Fight to Save Their Sport

Arts, Culture & Media

US Olympic wrestler Elena Pirozhkova weighs in on the International Olympic Committee’s decision this week to drop wrestling as an Olympic sport in 2020.

Wrestling As a Solution to Poverty in Senegal

Sports

Replacing soccer as the top sport, bare-knuckle wrestling is the only way many kids see out of their desperate poverty.

The World

Atlanta Anti-Sprawl Measure

Traffic jams in this commercial hub of the New South are reaching monumental proportions. And, as David Pollock reports, they are not the only problem this city is facing as a result of its explosive growth and sprawling development. Some of the measures the State of Georgia is proposing to contain sprawl are meeting with […]

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