The president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, revealed on Wednesday that baseb

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The president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, revealed on Wednesday that baseball and softball can again be included in the Olympics in 2020, when the event will take place in Tokyo, Japan The arrangements were part of the Olympic program until the Beijing Games in 2008, but did not figure in London in 2012, and also will not be played in Rio in 2016.
"That will be discussed," Bach revealed in a press conference. "We will have the first general discussion in December, at a meeting of the executive committee of the IOC. Then the executive committee will present its first discussion paper in Sochi (during the Olympic Winter Games, next year)," he added.
Baseball and softball were excluded from the 2012 program after an election held in 2005. The two modes, then joined into a single federation, in an attempt to return golgolgol to the Olympics in Tokyo in an election that took place in Buenos Aires in September, but were eventually defeated.
The winning bid for the Tokyo 2020 Games made the discussion around baseball and softball for the Olympics was lifted, since sports are very popular in the Asian country. The inclusion in the Olympic program would be translated facilities including structure, since Japan has stadiums ready for the rules are played.
Olympic regulation provides that the inclusion of sports in the Olympic program happen before the choice of venue, golgolgol but Thomas Bach admitted golgolgol that the IOC can be more "flexible" in this case. "I'm open for more flexibility in the Olympic program. But first we'll have to see what the rest of my colleagues think the IOC." Source: AE
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