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Originally Posted by breathesgelatin
Re: baseball and softball, I actually understand their rationale somewhat. There are some misconceptions that led to the sports getting thrown out but also some more legitimate concerns.
First, baseball and softball are really not popular in many parts of the world. They are popular in Japan, US, and Latin America... less so elsewhere. In fact as a world sport cricket is probably just as popular as baseball (and they are trying to get cricket recognized for the Olympics, btw).
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While I agree...as a purely spectator sport however (such as baseball), sports like swimming, badminton, marathons, running, etc are not well attended whatsoever nor extremely popular. Popularity should not be the definition of what is let into the olympics and what is not.
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