Jennie Finch will be in Beijing this August as part of the powerhouse U.S. Olympic softball squad. However, her biggest win may not be in Beijing this year but in Copenhagen in 2009. That’s when the games will be selected for the 2016 Summer Olympics and will be the next opportunity for softball to be an Olympic sport again.

That’s right; softball has joined baseball as persona non grata at the 2012 London Olympics due to their limited world appeal and (in the case of softball) U.S. domination of the sport. The Isle of Great Britain will only have bats swung within its shores in 2012 by soccer hooligans.
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