Three Strikes: Baseball is Out of Olympics
Olympic Baseball
The IOC voted to remove baseball and softball from the 2012 Olympic Games in London. This hasn't happened since polo was removed from the Olympics in 1936.
IOC members voted on replacements for the two sports, choosing squash and karate over rugby sevens, golf, and roller sports. Even then, they easily voted against adding them to the Olympic Games. Thus, the number of sports will decrease from 28 to 26.
Softball Federation chief Don Porter said, "I don't want to say it's an anti-U.S. thing, but they are two native American sports."
Australian Olympic Committee chairman John Coates blamed doping in U.S. baseball as marring the sport's reputation for the IOC. I'm not quite sure how to take this, because if "doping" is common, it's at the Olympic Games!
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on Saturday, July 9th, 2005 at 06:11 by Novac and is filed under All, Athletes, Baseball, Games, Olympics, People, Sports.
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