Baseball, Softball Dropped From Olympics
Insider’s earlier wish that baseball and softball get booted from the Olympics has been granted. This just in from the BBC:
Baseball and softball have been dropped from the Olympic programme for the 2012 Games – and could be replaced by rugby, squash, golf, karate or roller skating.
International Olympic Committee members held a secret ballot to decide which sports to axe from the existing list of 28 ahead of the London Games in 2012.
And both baseball and softball, who will remain on the Olympic programme for 2008, failed to get enough votes.
They are the first sports to be cut from the Olympics since polo in 1936
As we noted earlier, this keeps archery and modern pentathlon in the Olympic mix — yes, the same archery and modern pentathlon for which broadcasters worldwide fiercely compete for rights.
And the AP says “the IOC will consider replacing (baseball and softball) with two sports from a waiting list of five: golf, rugby, squash, karate and roller sports.”
Roller sports? Independent Sources proposes this for the 2012 Olympic program:
And thinks that Olivia Newton-John should represent Australia …
Anything but golf. Please.
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July 9th, 2005 at 1:16 am
Given it’s universal popularity, the Olympics should consider adding Poker as a medal event. NBC wants viewers? How about Doyle Brunson battling Johnny Chan and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson for the gold medal in primetime? I can tell you, we’d have a “full house” in front of my TV.