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RBI program discusses softball returning to Olympics
- Updated: August 14, 2016
CINCINNATI — Back in late June, a six-day trip to Tokyo for the USA Softball Women’s National Team culminated with a game against the Japanese Women’s National Team that brought 31,000 spectators to the Tokyo Dome.
What the team and the organization didn’t realize at the time was that the game would serve as a preview. A little over two months later, on Aug. 3, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to bring back baseball and softball for the 2020 Olympics to be held in Tokyo.
It was a decision long in the making for Craig Cress, the Amateur Softball Association (ASA)/USA Softball executive director, who has been with USA Softball since the IOC decided in August of 2005 to remove baseball and softball from the Games.
“As good a day as [Aug. 3] was, a day back in August in 2005 was the opposite of that,” Cress said. “It was a day that you felt like you’d been punched in the stomach, and not just as an organization, but because of all the young ladies in the world that play our sport.”
With the …
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