Softball organizations urging
your vote now for Olympic games
The website insidethegame.biz that covers world sports is running a poll about which new event should be added to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Both the ASA Facebook and the WBSC Facebook pages are encouraging softball players, coaches, fans and supporters to cast a ballot for “baseball/softball”.
In order to vote, you do have to listen to the first few seconds of a commercial. You can vote one time per day.
Softball last appeared in the Olympics at the 2008 Beijing games. Whether or not softball is added back again will be up to a newly formed seven-member "Tokyo 2020 Additional Event Programme Panel" who will begin their discussions in early February. Because of the popularity of softball in Japan, many fans are extremely hopeful that softball will be reinstated.
Other sports under consideration are karate, squash, skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing and roller sports.
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WESLEY
WOLVERINES COMPETING IN THE EXCITING SPORT OF SOFTBALL.
Adding
softball to the Olympics, softball great Jennie Finch argues, “would
further encourage and promote women's participation in sport at all
levels and give women more opportunities to be empowered through
sport.”
The 2012 London games was the first time every country sent
at least one female athlete. That must improve and softball is
definitely a prime vehicle to do it.
Softball is increasingly popular
worldwide; the recent World Cup of Softball games were broadcast in
as many as 140 countries!
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