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Baseball at the Olympics

The popular world sport of baseball was a demonstration sport at the Olympics for the most part of the 20th century, and only became an official Olympic sport in 1992. Baseball's part of the official Olympic Games program was only short lived, the sport was dropped from the 2012 Games program, but back temporarily on the program for Tokyo 2020 (baseball has not been included on the 2024 sports program).

Baseball at the Olympics is for men only. There is a softball event for women.



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