SAVING WRESTLING
New book chronicles fight to stay in Olympics
Follow the wild and crazy 208-day rollercoaster ride where wrestling leaders stepped up to keep its sport on the Olympic Games program
By James V. Moffatt Award-winning writers Jamie Moffatt and Craig Sesker have teamed up to write a sizzling account of wrestling’s current- event story of the year, “Saving Wrestling: The Inside Story of the Sport’s Epic Fight to Stay in the Olympics” It is a new book filled with numerous behind-the-scenes episodes inside the IOC, FILA, USA Wrestling and the Russian Wrestling Federation during the campaign to save the venerable Olympic sport. As the wrestling world grappled with the IOC recommendation
to eliminate wrestling from the Olympics last February 12, Moffatt and Sesker at once set out to chronicle the journey that the sport would take over the next 208 days to reclaim its right- ful place in the Games. Citing interviews and correspondence between the world’s
most senior wrestling administrators and leaders, the authors expertly weave a tapestry of stories and anecdotes from the start to the finish of the global movement to override the IOC’s virtual death sentence for the sport. Readers of the book will discover: How the original and illogical IOC vote to eliminate Olympic wrestling transpired. How the people at FILA, USA Wrestling and Russia engi-
neered the plan to remove – and keep out – an ineffectual pres- ident from office. Who the leaders were that inspired a galvanized movement
which in just a few months transformed the sport into the ‘new wrestling’. How the Kremlin, the President of Iran, the United Nations
and Buckingham Palace were involved in wrestling’s quest for redemption. How the controversial addition of two women’s (and the loss
of two men’s) Olympic weight classes and the ‘new rules’ became adopted. How the strategy and delivery of the two FILA formal presen-
tations to the IOC voters helped clinch the ‘victory’ for wrestling. Why wrestling adopted ‘diplomacy’ and ‘humility’ for its
biggest fight in history. To order the book: Kindle e-book version, go to
Amazon.com
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Apple i-Pad and i-phone version, go to iBooks Traditional printed book, send a $25 check or money order
per book to Jamie Moffatt, 806 Sewell Ave, Cape May, NJ 08204 If you are using PayPal, the receiving address is
emoffatt@aol.com “Saving Wrestling: The Inside Story of the Sport’s Epic
Fight to Stay in the Olympics” is published by Exit Zero Publishing. All rights reserved.
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