USA Wrestler Photo Contest
Top left: J’Mari Lowman, 9. of the MarcAurele Wrestling Club in Connecticut competing in the USA Wrestling Connecticut State Tournament in New Haven. Lowman won the state title at 60 pounds. Serinol Lowman photo. Top right: Haden Mackowiak, 13, of the Navy Junior club scoring a pin with a cradle. Jody Mackowiak photo. Bottom left: Jonathan Wamsley, 9, of the Shakopee Mat Club in Minnesota, goes for a fall in his match at 79 pounds at a tournament in Edina, Minn. Jenny Wamsley photo. USA Wrestler is seeking your best wrestling photography for publication in a future issue of the magazine. Other photos may be posted on
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Olympic champs Gardner, Cejudo star on Tonight Show
By Richard Immel
Olympic wrestling champions Henry Cejudo (2008) and Rulon Gardner (2000) stole the show during their appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on March 18. Gardner and Cejudo were invited on the show to discuss the International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board recommen- dation to remove wrestling from the Olympic Games beginning in 2020. They talked about what the wrestling community is doing to fight this decision. The host of The Tonight Show, Jay Leno, expressed his dis- like for the IOC recommendation numerous times on the show. "I invited them here because I'm really mad about this," said Leno. “When I think of baseball, you want to go to the World Series. When I think of football, you want to go to the Super Bowl. I think with the wrestling the only place you can go – unless it's goofball TV wrestling – is the Olympics.” 2000 Olympic gold medalist Rulon Gardner has been cement- ed as a wrestling legend since he defeated the unstoppable Russian Alexander Karelin in the finals at the Sydney Games.
Gardner was adamant that wrestling is a unifying force among nations.
“High school and college wrestling is great, but the world comes together through the Olympics and through the sport of wrestling,” Gardner said. Cejudo echoed these sentiments and also expressed concern for the effect this decision could have on wrestling at every level of competition.
“If they get rid of wrestling at the Olympic level more likely they're probably going to take it out of the NCAAs and then high school and then the pee wee division. That's what I'm afraid of,” Cejudo said. To watch the entire episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno featuring Henry Cejudo and Rulon Gardner visit
nbc.com. Visit
keepwrestlingintheolympics.com to help support the movement to keep wrestling in the Olympic Games in 2020 and beyond.
Also, “like” the Keep Wrestling in the Olympics Facebook
page and follow @wrestlingvision on Twitter to stay up-to-date on news and information regarding Olympic wrestling.
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