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Mack Beggs is the Texas state female high school wrestling champion with an undefeated record. He's also a transgender boy, taking testosterone for his transition which competitors say gives him an unfair advantage.
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| UpdatedTransgender teenager Mack Beggs wins a Texas state championship wrestling competition for females, after being forced to compete outside his gender because of a policy passed in the state last year.
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International Wrestling Australia rolls into Evans Head in northern New South Wales.
Topics: wrestling, human-interest, evans-head-2473
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| UpdatedA troupe of lycra-clad men and women have been bringing professional wrestling to regional Australia for 20 years, and they say the sweaty spectacle is seeing a resurgence.
Topics: wrestling, sport, regional, community-and-society, arts-and-entertainment, evans-head-2473, woodburn-2472, australia
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Topics: wrestling, police, law-crime-and-justice, disabilities, cairns-4870
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A young Down syndrome wrestling fan learns there are more good people in the world than bad.
Topics: wrestling, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, diseases-and-disorders, arts-and-entertainment, cairns-4870, surfers-paradise-4217
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| UpdatedFurious Mongolian officials strip off in protest after their wrestler is judged the loser of a bronze medal contest after taunting his opponent in a victory dance.
Topics: olympics-summer, wrestling, sport, brazil, mongolia
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An Australian judo competitor who failed to qualify for the Rio Olympics sets his sights on a career in professional wrestling.
Topics: wrestling, other-sports, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Villagers used to mock and throw dirty looks at India's female wrestlers, but attitudes are slowly starting to change ahead of the Rio Games.
Topics: sport, wrestling, olympics-summer, india, brazil
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She was denied her first World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) audition because she was too young, but Adelaide's Demi Bennett isn't giving up on her dream to wrestle on the world stage.
Topics: wrestling, human-interest, adelaide-5000
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Demi Bennett works out at the Riot City Wrestling gym.
Topics: wrestling, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedAustralian wrestler Vinod Kumar hires lawyers in a bid to clear his name and compete at the Rio Olympics after he was hit with a four-year ban for failing a doping test.
Topics: olympics-summer, wrestling, sport, australia
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| UpdatedGreco-Roman wrestler Vinod Kumar faces expulsion from the Australian Olympic team after copping a doping suspension.
Topics: sport, olympics-summer, wrestling, doping-in-sports, australia, brazil
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Coming off a second jiu-jitsu world championship win, Shantelle Thompson sets her sights on wrestling.
Topics: martial-arts, wrestling, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, mildura-3500
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Wrestler Talgat Ilyasov prepares to represent Australia at the Rio Games more than a decade on the sidelines after being told he would never play the sport again because of a back injury.
Topics: wrestling, other-sports, olympics-summer, sport, melbourne-3000, brazil
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Australia's Olympic team for Rio grows by another seven athletes with the announcement of competitors in boxing and two wrestling disciplines.
Topics: boxing, wrestling, sport, olympics-summer, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedTorquay surfing identity and former Olympic wrestler Joe Sweeney dies at the age of 82.
Topics: surfing, wrestling, torquay-3228
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| UpdatedManchester United star Wayne Rooney makes his most popular strike of the season, slapping WWE wrestler Wade Barrett at an event.
Topics: sport, soccer, english-premier, wrestling, england
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| UpdatedBrisbane Broncos star Daniel Vidot says he has secured a three-year contract with WWE after completing a trial in Orlando, Florida.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, wrestling, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, united-states
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Melbourne's first all-female professional wrestling event will be held on Sunday to raise money for Breast Cancer Network Australia.
Topics: wrestling, charities-and-community-organisations, popular-culture, melbourne-3000
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Iranian wrestler Amir Aziz Ali Akbari was stripped of a world title and banned for life after testing positive to steroids.
Topics: wrestling, other-sports, sport, iran-islamic-republic-of
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Wrestling has completed an unprecedented Olympic comeback, reclaiming its spot in the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Topics: olympics-summer, sport, wrestling, argentina
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| UpdatedAustralian wrestlers are trying to improve their international standing as the sport itself fights to maintain its Olympic status.
Topics: wrestling, act, canberra-2600