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Softball was featured at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in its first Olympic appearance since 2008. [1] The tournament consisted of six teams. Baseball/softball was one of five optional sports added to the program of the 2020 Summer Olympics. [2]
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
Softball and baseball were reinstated together on a one-time basis at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. [15] Five nations have won medals in softball at the Olympics; the United States, China, Australia, Japan, and Canada. [5] With three gold medals and two silver, the United States were the most successful team. [5]
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 ...
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).
Australia's Olympic softball squad will be among the first athletes to arrive from overseas for the Tokyo Games when they fly off for a training camp in Japan next Monday to get some desperately ...
Six teams qualified for the Olympic softball tournament, including Japan, which, as host nation, qualified automatically. The United States team won the 2018 Women's Softball World Championship to qualify for the Olympics. The remaining four spots were allocated through three qualification tournaments: one spot for a Europe/Africa tournament ...
Two teams of seven players play on a court and score goals by passing the ball around the court and throwing it through the opposing team’s net. ... in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, softball ...