Baseball could make an Olympic comeback in 2020
Baseball and softball are on the shortlist for the 2020 summer games in Tokyo, the event's organizing committee announced Monday. The sports were cut from the competition after 2008, when Beijing played host.
Other sports whose International Olympic Committee-recognized federations could make the cut are bowling, karate, roller sports, climbing, squash, surfing, and kung fu. Don't expect the more outlandish sports of the bunch to get approved, though: Tokyo is trying to save money on the games by making use of existing sports facilities, rather than building new ones, as Quartz notes.
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