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Baseball/softball was one of five optional sports added to the program of the 2020 Summer Olympics. [2] The first six opening round games were played at Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium in an effort to highlight Fukushima's recovery from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster , while the remaining games were played at Yokohama Stadium . [ 3 ]
The softball games were held in Columbus, Georgia (approximately 100 miles from the main Olympic Games site of Atlanta, Georgia). Countries competing at the 1996 Summer Olympics included the United States, China, Australia, Japan, Canada, Taiwan, the Netherlands and Puerto Rico. [23] [24] This was the first time softball was on the Olympic ...
The Canadian roster of 15 athletes was named on 12 May 2021, including four members of the last team that competed at the Olympics (Lawrie, Rafter, Regula and Sailing). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Softball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Canada roster
However, the team then won the silver medals at the 2008 and 2020 Summer Olympics, both times narrowly losing to Japan. On March 26, 2008, the United States Olympic softball team had their 185-game winning streak (both official and exhibition games) snapped in a no-hitter thrown by Virginia Tech's pitcher Angela Tincher , who struck out 10 ...
This is a chronological summary of the major events of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, which was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first matches in the group stages of the football and softball events was held on 21 July. The opening ceremony was scheduled two days later on 23 July.
Softball is back on the Olympic program after being dropped for the past two Games. Here's everything you need to know for the sport's Olympic return.
Softball wasn’t a part of either of the next two Summer Olympics, in 2012 or 2016, but it returned for the 2020 games in Tokyo, aided at least in some part by the fact that Japan had won the ...
Karate, sport climbing, surfing, and skateboarding made their Olympic debut, while baseball and softball also made a one-off return to the Summer Olympics for the first time since 2008. 15 new events within existing sports were also added, including 3×3 basketball, freestyle BMX, and the return of madison cycling, as well as nine new mixed ...