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|have [[feminist]] [[Title IX quotas]] destroyed the [[U.S.]] team?
 
|have [[feminist]] [[Title IX quotas]] destroyed the [[U.S.]] team?
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|The 2008 U.S. men's wrestling team won one gold and one bronze medal.<ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2009-04-08-usa-wrestling_N.htm U.S. wrestlers take first steps toward London Olympics] Gary Mihoces, usatoday.com, retrieved August 12, 2012</ref> The 2012 U.S. team has won two gold medals and two bronze medals.<ref>[http://www.london2012.com/wrestling/medals/medal-standings/ Olympic Wrestling - Medal Count] london2012.com, retrieved August 12, 2012</ref>
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|The U.S. men's wrestling team won only three medals - less than half that won by much-smaller and less prosperous Iran, and only a fraction of the medals won by Russian, despite the U.S. winning far more medals overall than both nations.
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Men's track has also been ravaged by feminist Title IX quotas, and [[Team U.S.A.]] won only one bronze medal out of 12 medals in the marquee events of the men's 100m, 200m, 400m, and 800m events -- which the U.S. previously dominated.
 
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