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What: A USA Wrestling Teleconference to update media on what the sport is doing to keep its spot on the Olympic Games program.

Who:\xa0 2012 Olympic Bronze Medalist Coleman Scott, who recently returned from the Freestyle World Cup in Iran, featuring the 10 top wrestling countries in the world,\xa0 and saw first-hand\xa0 the passion and excellence of the sport in the first international competition after the bad news earlier in the month from the IOC.

Rich Bender, Executive Director of USA Wrestling, who spent the week in Tehran, helping build a coalition of countries to challenge this IOC recommendation.

Jim Scherr, former CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee and newly- appointed FILA Bureau member, who will help spearhead the International wrestling federation\u2019s efforts to keep wrestling in the Olympics. He has just returned from Lausanne, Switzerland, headquarters of FILA.\xa0 He\u2019s currently the commissioner of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference.

Background:\xa0 The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee recommended at its meeting Feb. 12, 2013, in Lausanne, Switzerland, to not include the sport of wrestling in the program for the 2020 Olympic Games and beyond.\xa0 It is a recommendation only at this time.

\xb7\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Two dates are vitally important to reverse this recommendation.\xa0 Between May 24-27 in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Executive Board will hear presentations from the following sports:\xa0 baseball/softball, karate, roller sports, squash, sport climbing, wakeboard, wrestling and wushu.\xa0 Up to three of those sports will move forward for final consideration at the General Session of the IOC in September.

\xb7\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 In its meeting Sept. 4-7 in Buenos, Aires, Argentina, the 114-member IOC General Session will have two votes.\xa0 The first is to accept or reject the Executive Board\u2019s recommendation to drop wrestling from the Games.\xa0 If that\u2019s upheld, the IOC members will then vote to select one of the three sports forwarded by the Executive Board for inclusion on the Olympic Program in 2020.