The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has dropped wrestling from the 2020 Summer Games according to the international press. The IOC said on Tuesday that the Executive Board recommended excluding wrestling from the list of core sports.

However, wrestling still has a chance to return to the Games in 2020 through a complicated process. The IOC later this year will choose one of eight shortlisted sports to add to the 2020 program: wrestling, baseball/softball, climbing, karate, roller sports, squash, wakeboarding and a Chinese martial art called wushu.

For Mongolia, 9 out of total 24 Olympic medals that Mongolians won from the Olympic Games were for wrestling sports.

Mongolians had hoped that free style wrestling athletes would have success in the 2020 Summer Games. The Olympic bronze medalist C.Battsetseg in particular is one of the big hopes for Mongolia to take another medal in the future Olympics.