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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).
Softball was still played at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, however, and the Japanese team claimed their first gold and third overall medal in Olympic softball. [12] 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.
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]
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.
Baseball and softball, before their reinstatement for the 2020 Olympics, [30] were last included in 2008: therefore, the number of sports in the 2012 Summer Olympics was dropped from 28 to 26. This was the first time a sport or discipline had been removed from the Olympic program since canoe slalom after 1972 (though it returned in 1992 ).
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 ...
YOKOHAMA, Japan — The Japanese softball team won its second gold medal in Olympic history Tuesday, toppling a favored American squad in a fairy-tale finish for the host country. Except no one ...
Olympic softball is a women only competition, with men competing in the similar sport of baseball. This is the last time Softball was contested as a core sport at the Olympics, as the International Olympic Committee voted to remove baseball from the program in the 2012 Olympics . [ 1 ]