On September 8 session the IOC in Buenos Aires will consider presentations of wrestling, baseball and squash then will choose one of these sports for inclusion in the Olympic Games-2020 program. The opinion on a situation was expressed by the Olympic champion-2012 in Greco-Roman wrestling Roman Vlasov.

I since the childhood dreamed to win Olympic Games, and thanks to Greco-Roman wrestling I managed to achieve the objective, - Roman Vlasov told. - For me wrestling is a symbol of Olympic Games, link of times and generations of athletes of antiquity and the present. It is sure that this communication can't be destroyed, it is impossible to deprive of children and teenagers of dream to subdue a sports Olympus. Especially as the past 8 months (since February 12) were eventful also the affairs showing solidarity of wrestlers of the whole world, our opportunities to change and develop, our abilities to wrestling for the viewer. So, on University games in Kazan, with big success there took place a premiere of new rules of wrestling. The overflowed tribunes, thousands audience television and Internet translations is too argument in favor of the manumission, female, Greco-Roman wrestling, as spectacular and interesting sports which always took a worthy place in the program of Olympic Games. I hope that at session the IOC in Buenos Aires the only right decision and three wrestling disciplines will be made remain in the Olympic family.

Let's note that Roman Vlasov's destiny is closely bound with the identity of triple Olympic champion Alexander Karelin. "I grew in the same hall where San Sanych trained, - Roman Vlasov remembers. - Since the childhood I looked at it, equaled. One of the brightest memoirs of those years: Karelin is kneeling, and I try to overcome him... It after all, even already being the triple Olympic champion, all the same I played with boys like me... " Roman Vlasov trains at Victor Kuznetsov who was Alexander Karelin's first and only trainer. And the victory on Karelin's youthful Prize became the first big success for future champion of London-2012.

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