![]() ![]() "This is a very exciting day for the millions of players around the world who dream of wearing their country's jersey and playing on the most important global platform in sports," Fraccari said. I don't see how it cannot be part of the Olympics."īaseball/softball is the biggest sport not currently part of the Olympics - particularly in terms of youth participation in organized competition, World Baseball Softball Confederation President Riccardo Fraccari said. Nationals player Clint Robinson said baseball "is one of the most popular sports in the world. Team USA finished the tournament with a 4-2 record and brought home the silver medal. A woman walks past a Tokyo 2020 poster during a test of potential spectator and games screening measures ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, now postponed until July 2021 due to the COVID-19. Without disrespecting the players who played before, the Olympics were just not getting the best players." FILE - In this Thursday, April 22, 2021, file photo, Pittsburgh Pirates Todd Frazier plays during a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers in Detroit, At 35 and close to the end of his baseball career, Frazier is on the U.S. fell short in an old-fashioned pitcher’s duel in the gold medal game of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, leaving nine runners on base in a 2-0 loss to host Japan at Yokohama Baseball Stadium. "The Olympics are all about getting the best in the world. ![]() "It would be best if baseball were part of the Winter Olympics ," Votto said before the Reds' game against the Nationals. The Olympics take place during the MLB season and the Games' failure to lure the world's best players was a factor in the sport being dropped from the Olympic program.įrazier and others, including teammate Joey Votto, a Canadian, did not think MLB would halt its season during the Olympics, as the National Hockey League does. The first leg announcing the start of the Tokyo Games, the Olympic Torch Lighting Ceremony, is scheduled for 12 March 2020 in Greece.It will then arrive in Japan on 20 March 2020. I would love to have baseball be part of the Olympics again," Frazier, who played for the United States twice while in college, although not at the Games, told Reuters. FILE - In this Thursday, April 22, 2021, file photo, Pittsburgh Pirates' Todd Frazier plays during a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers in Detroit, At 35 and close to the end of his baseball career, Frazier is on the U.S. "Today's announcement by Tokyo 2020 to include baseball/softball into its proposal for additional events at the 2020 Olympic games is an exciting step forward to hopefully seeing our game return to this important platform," Manfred said in a statement.īaseball and softball were Olympic events until 2012, when the IOC's 2005 decision to drop the sports took effect.Ĭincinnati Reds two-time All-Star Todd Frazier said baseball's return to the Olympics would be great for the sport. track legend will be making her fifth Olympics appearance and looking to add to her haul of six Olympic medals (six golds and three silvers). ![]()
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