VP of FILA: Wrestling "Faced Its Demons" -- ATR Podcast

(ATR) Stan Dziedzic joins Around the Rings from Tashkent to discuss the road to the 2020 Olympics for wrestling.

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US Adeline Maria Gray (red) and Turkey's Yaemin Adar (blue) fight during the women's free style 72 kg category for bronze of the FILA World Wrestling Championships in Budapest on September 20, 2013. Grey won the bronze medal. AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK (Photo credit should read ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images)

(ATR) With a successful world championships underway in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, wrestling’s world governing body - FILA, now United World Wrestling - looks forward to the future of the sport, especially its inclusion once again in the Olympic Games.

FILA vice president Stan Dziedzic joins Around the Ringsfrom Tashkent to discuss the 2014 Wrestling World Championships, newly elected UWW presidentNenad Lalovic, and Olympic Agenda 2020.

Dziedzic is one of three vice presidents for wrestling’s world governing body. He earned a bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics and is also a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

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