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Nate Colbert

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Baseball and softball back in 2020 Olympics?
« on: December 08, 2014, 09:06:48 am »
The corrupt and disease-ridden corpse that is the IOC took steps today to allow both sports to be added for 2020. Host country Japan must still request this (considered a lock given both sports popularity in the country) and then apparently a final vote will be taken in July.

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Re: Baseball and softball back in 2020 Olympics?
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2016, 03:10:44 pm »
Baseball and softball will return, at least for 2020 per the IOC vote today.

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Re: Baseball and softball back in 2020 Olympics?
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2018, 07:14:53 pm »
Jon Morosi  @jonmorosi 32m ago
Olympic baseball news: @MLB expected to allow non-40-man roster players to participate in the 2020 Tokyo Games and qualifiers, which begin in 2019. Club approval is required on a player-by-player basis.