UPI Pictures of the Year 2013 -- NEWS AND FEATURES

U.S. Wrestling executive director Rich Bender(L) hugs Hojatollah Khatib, Iran's Wrestling chief (R) prior of their meeting in Tehran, Iran on February 2013. The aim of the meeting was to find a common ground to save wrestling as an Olympic sport. Last week the International Olympic Committee made a secret-ballot surprise decision to remove wrestling from the Olympic program for the 2020 Games . UPI/Maryam Rahmanian