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奥运会比赛项目英文介绍：Wrestling(摔跤)

If the Olympic Games are a history of mankind, wrestling is the prologue. When the ancient Games of the Olympiad were born, wrestling already was an ancient game. Widely recognised as the world's oldest competitive sport, wrestling appeared in a series of Egyptian wall paintings as many as 5000 years ago. When the Games began in 776 BC, more than two millenniums later, it included wrestling, and, in the years that followed, wrestling featured as the main event.

The sport would return in a similar role when the Olympic Games returned after a 1500-year absence in 1896. Organisers, seeking direct links to ancient times, found a natural in the sport that had enjoyed popularity across much of the ancient world, from Greece, Assyria and Babylon to India, China and Japan. They resurrected Greco-Roman wrestling, a style they believed to be an exact carryover from the Greek and Roman wrestlers of old.

In Greco-Roman wrestling, the wrestlers used only their arms and upper bodies to attack. They could hold only those same parts of their opponents. It worked nicely from a historical perspective, but another breezier style was sweeping across Great Britain and the United States by then. Known as "catch as catch can", it had become standard fare - and popular professional entertainment - at fairs and festivals in both countries.

In 1904, the Olympic Games added the second wrestling event and called it "freestyle". Now, wrestlers could use their legs for pushing, lifting and tripping, and they could hold opponents above or below the waist.

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prologue n. 序言，序幕，开端

millennium n. 一千年，太平盛世

resurrect vt. 使复活;复兴

trip vi. 摔倒;绊倒

相关词汇：

Greek-Roman wrestling 古典式摔跤

wrestler 摔跤运动员

standing wrestling 站立摔

on-the-ground wrestling 跪撑摔

bridge 角力桥

free style wrestling 自由式摔跤

bar arm with grapevine 锁臂缠腿

double leg lock 抱单腿拦腿摔

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