Despite its history, wrestling somehow lost out to several fringe events, such as modern pentathlon.
Six other members come from ice hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, swimming, rowing or badminton.
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Injured Kelly Sotherton is a doubt for the pentathlon, but knee problems mean triple-jumper Phillips Idowu is out.
In addition, Britain's two female competitors in modern pentathlon, Maihra Spence and Samantha Murray, are among the best.
He won Olympic gold medals in 1912 for both the decathlon and pentathlon.
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Kelly Sotherton cannot compete in the pentathlon because of a heel injury.
The trailblazer: Ujjwala Raut, a slim, 1.77-meter former pentathlon specialist from Maharashtra.
Naked athletes participated in foot races, the pentathlon, horse and chariot races and in three combat sports wrestling, boxing and the almost-no-holds-barred pankration.
In the final voting, wrestling went up against field hockey and modern pentathlon, with modern pentathlon looking like the most vulnerable of the three.
"That was definitely an advantage, " said Matthew Pound, a spokesman for the pentathlon federation, which has been a part of the Olympics since 1912.
And the Olympics, which features sports like the modern pentathlon that are long out of fashion, faces a challenge in attracting younger audiences and participants.
Lena Schoneborn of Germany won the gruelling women's modern pentathlon competition from Britain's Heather Fell, with Victoria Tereshuk of the Ukraine taking the bronze medal.
By this measure, Lithuania hits the board, thanks to modern pentathlon.
More disappointment followed at March's World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, where she again was pipped to gold, this time in the pentathlon, by Ukrainian Nataliya Dobrynska.
Ennis has missed her last two competitions with a foot injury but has been in superb form this season and is strong favourite for the pentathlon title.
Modern pentathlon has compressed its competition to a single day.
Still included are the modern pentathlon, an odd event that includes equestrian show jumping and pistol shooting components, and cycling, a sport that has been plagued with doping scandals.
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World and European heptathlon Ennis is set to compete in the pentathlon, having recovered from the ankle injury that led to her pulling out of last weekend's Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham.
Ennis's main competition at the Gotzis multi-events meeting, which is part of the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge, is likely to come from the Ukraine's reigning Olympic champion Nataliya Dobrynska and World Indoor pentathlon champion Tatyana Chernova of Russia.
As well as being Olympic team pursuit champion, Clancy won gold at the Track Cycling World Championships in Denmark last year, and he also picked up the men's omnium - the "pentathlon" of cycling - in the second round of the World Cup in Cali, Colombia.
Whichever sport is chosen will join the 25 sports the IOC listed Tuesday as core sports for 2020: athletics (track and field), rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.
Whichever sport is chosen will join the 25 sports the IOC listed Tuesday as core sports for 2020: athletics (track and field), rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, field hockey, judo, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.
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