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Originally Posted by Mccree
As for softball I am not sure why it is being removed?
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It's at least partially a gender issue. The IOC is trying to get away from having too many single-gender sports (which is why in the Winter Games for example, Women's biathalon, hockey, and luge have been added since Calgary hosted). They want to have both a men's and women's version of each sport, or at least an equivalent between the two. Since softball is the female equivalent of baseball, when they decided to scrap baseball, softball got the axe too.