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Throughout the tournament Team USA outscored its opponents 51-1. Team USA won the Olympic gold medal in softball for the third straight time. Australia's silver medal marks its best result in Olympic softball history. Japan earned the bronze medal after defeating China in the semi-final, and losing to Australia in the Bronze medal game.
Canada; Position No. Player Birth Club in 2004 IF: 2: Erin White: OCT/27/1977: Team Canada P: 3: Lauren Bay: AUG/09/1981: White Rock Renegades (British Columbia) IF
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 ...
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 ]
The growth of softball in the United States has been palpable. ... On their way to the top of the medal stand in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, they outscored opponents by a combined 51-1 ...
[3] [4] The team was selected based on the results of the 2004 United States Olympic Trials. Adam Nelson originally claimed a silver medal in men's shot put. On December 5, 2012, the International Olympic Committee and the IAAF stripped off Ukrainian shot putter Yuriy Bilonoh 's gold medal after drug re-testings of his samples were discovered ...
There's a reason the American women seemed mad after accepting their silver medals. Look at those 13 lost years without an Olympic opportunity.
She represented the United States women's national softball team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She won a gold medal, and again at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and won a silver medal. She is the first African-American female to play on the United States softball team in the Olympics. She is the career batting average leader in the National Pro ...