I have a question: wrestling. It draws a near fanatical devotion from its participants, who have sworn to me that the level of fitness it requires is through the roof, equivalent to or greater than, say, that required for triathlons.
And yet the dropoff rate is possibly the most steep of any "sport," post-school. I don't understand why - there's not much in the way of equipment required, and conceivably someone could throw down mats in a corner of the senior center and two older dudes could have at it. You don't forget the holds, right? Is it the weight requirement? But surely that would be pretty much the same for all guys in the same age group.
Surely something like racquetball is just as demanding. Wrestling is not in the senior Olympics. It just seems odd to me, given how many people participated in wrestling in school, and how much statewide support there was for it. Commercial performance wrestling, emphasis on performance, seems to be popular. Did all older wrestlers migrate to mixed martial arts?