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Baseball & Softball Being Dropped in the Olympics

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Perfection:
It's been decided now that starting in 2012 baseball & softball will no longer be olympic sports.

Reason given for softball is that it's not popular enough.
Reasons given for baseball is that MLB doesn't send players to the olympics & the whole steroids issue.

If the IOC is worried  about steroids than why don't they drop track & field from the olympics?

Some people think that this is anti-American becasue those are 2 sports usually won by Americans.

Rumoured replacments for baseball & softball are:
rugby
kirate
rollerblading
golf
Just to name a few

Don Jacob:
ah that's some bullshit

Don Seer:

the should include skateboarding :D


sports that have pro-leagues like soccer, basketball etc have always seemed odd to me at being olympic sports..

e.g. for soccer there is the world cup..

No Compute:
They should drop the gay shit like syncronised swimming. Thats not a fucking sport its a piss about in a pool.

ABN:
why should they have baseball on there when it´s not a big sport worldwide? it´s not a big sport in many countries so it´s the right thing to do drop baseball coz it wouldn´t be no competition what so ever. but they should drop a lot of other sports aswell.

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