SOURCE: www.flowrestling.org

June 16, 2017

To make room for 5 new sports, wrestling will lose 56 spots in the 2020 Olympics. https://t.co/9Ijw0Gg5xh

— FloWrestling (@FloWrestling) June 16, 2017

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the addition of five new sports and 15 new events for the 2020 Tokyo Games. According to the IOC, the purpose for these changes is so that the Olympic Games will be "more youthful, more urban, and will include more women."

Unfortunately, the IOC will not be expanding the overall size of the games, and so those new events and athletes will come at the expense of the old programming from the 2016 Rio Games.

To the surprise of no one, wrestling was on the receiving end of those cuts, losing 56 spots from the 344 wrestlers who participated in Rio.