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The United States won silver, and the Australian team bronze, to become the only countries to win a medal in all four Olympic softball tournaments. The international governing bodies of softball, baseball, rugby sevens, golf, karate, roller sports, and squash petitioned the IOC in 2009 to fill two sport slots at the 2016 Olympics . [ 13 ]
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 batters in a 1–0 exhibition win for the Hokies. The no-hit win proved something extra special in this case, as Tincher had ...
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in softball (29 P) Pages in category "Olympic softball players for the United States" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
The U.S. Olympic Team for the 2024 Paris Olympics has officially been announced.. With just 16 days to go until the opening ceremony, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee announced 592 ...
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
There's a reason the American women seemed mad after accepting their silver medals. Look at those 13 lost years without an Olympic opportunity.
Softball was on the Olympic program from 1996 to 2008. It was introduced at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and was removed from the program for 2012 and 2016, but was added for a one-off appearance, along with baseball, for the 2020 Summer Olympics (which was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
The United States has routinely been one of the top countries in softball at the Olympics, making the gold-medal game in each of the five years softball has been an Olympic sport. It went 3-2 in ...