IOC president Jacques Rogge insists that wrestling’s Olympic future is not over, despite the executive board’s decision to exclude it as a core sport for 2020, thesportreview.com reported.

Rogge, speaking after the two-day meeting, insisted discussions were already in place to help wrestling regain its Olympic place.

One of the oldest Olympic sports, wrestling will still compete in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, and join seven other sports vying for a place in 2020, and Rogge encouraged competitors to remain positive.

“The vote is not a termination of wrestling from the Olympic Games I want to be very clear on that,” he said.

“First of all wrestling will participate in the games in Rio de Janeiro. To the athletes who train now I will say, ‘Continue training for participation in Rio’ and I am saying your federation is working towards inclusion in the 2020 games.”

The two-day meeting also saw the shortlist for the 2018 Youth Olympics named.

Glasgow beat the cut to join Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Medellin, Colombia while Rotterdam missed out.

First held in Singapore in 2010, the Youth Olympics will be in Nanjing, China, in 2014 and so will head to Europe or South America for the first time.

Glasgow is already set to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games and so has the infrastructure in place to stage a major international competition.

Glasgow 2014 Chairman Lord Robert Smith congratulated the 2018 bid team and hopes a successful bid will continue their aim of building a sporting legacy.