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Olympic success sparks London Legacy sport channel

The Olympic Games legacy is set to continue with a 24-hour-a-day sports channel, showing 24 Olympic sports.

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Wrestling: Olga Butkevych out in first round

Team GB’s Olga Butkevych bowed out of London 2012 after she lost to Lissette Alexandra Antes Castillo in the first round of the women’s -55kg freestyle wrestling.

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London 2012: Bluffer’s guide to wrestling

Recognised as one of the world’s oldest sports, wrestling was first held at the ancient Olympics in 708 BC, and Greco-Roman Wrestling was later included in the first of the Modern Olympic Games in Athens 1896.

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Delhi 2010: Scottish wrestlers roll into action ahead of Games

The Scottish woman’s wrestlers rolled into action with a tough training schedule today in preparation for the start of the 2010 Commonwealth Games which will see woman’s wrestling feature for the very first time.

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