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Wrestling was admitted to the Olympic Games at the IOC session held in Paris in 1901. The first Olympic events took place at the 1904 Summer Olympics in Saint Louis in the United States. Olympic officials decided to add this new discipline, certainly with a less rich and less noble past than the previous one but enjoying enormous popularity, in particular, in Great Britain and the United States, where it was one of the star attractions of 19th century festivals and fairs
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The Greeks were the ones who started this type of game that is considered a sport, although Jean Exbrayat was the inventor, the name of the Greek players is not known in detail, since they are centuries ago, but it is known three of them; Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns, Seth Rolling, however we know that at the beginning it was more common to do it in a team and that each one was in charge of the opposing player, but the last fights like this are individual.
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The first world championship in Greco-Roman wrestling was held in Vienna in 1904 and the first world championship in freestyle wrestling took place in Helsinki in 1951. Although wrestling has been a widely practiced sport since ancient times, it was in 1848 when a Frenchman named Jean Exbrayat, a former soldier of Napoleon who had a fairground stall, instituted modern wrestling by popularizing the rule of not making holds below the waist. This was the origin of Greco-Roman wrestling.
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The "pin" began to be accepted, which is to immobilize the opponent for a sufficient time with both shoulders touching the canvas. This arose around 1990 to 2000 when this movement was considered valid, which is why the rules of the game progressed.
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The group debuted as a stable heel on November 18, 2012 at the Survivor Series pay-per-view and wrestled their first match at that year's TLC: Tables, Ladders Chairs event. The Shield was a dominant force in six-man tag team matches, at one point going on an undefeated streak from December 2012 to May 2013, during which they scored a win at WrestleMania 29 and defeated tag teams
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Mijaín López breaks records with his fifth Olympic gold at Paris 2024: The wrestling giant adds to his legend. Mijaín López won the gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling (130 kg) at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Well, but he also did it in Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016, and Tokyo 2020.