Granma has the story of the Cuban baseball team beating the Americans, 5-3 in 11 innings, in Beijing. This was the first time they've played extra innings in the Olympics to eliminate ties. Wikipedia has the details: "Baseball at the Summer Olympics had its unofficial debut at the 1904 Summer Games and has been contested in 12 Olympiads (including its centennial in 2004 Athens). Since then, 17 different nations have appeared in Olympic baseball competition, with three of those nations-- Cuba, Italy and Japan-- appearing in all four medal editions of the tournament. Baseball has a long history as an exhibition sport in the Olympics. However, for 1992 Barcelona the International Olympic Committee (IOC) granted the sport medal status. At the IOC meeting in July 11, 2005, baseball and softball were voted out of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, becoming the first sport voted out of the Olympics since polo was eliminated from the 1936 Olympics.
15 August 2008
Good for them
Granma has the story of the Cuban baseball team beating the Americans, 5-3 in 11 innings, in Beijing. This was the first time they've played extra innings in the Olympics to eliminate ties. Wikipedia has the details: "Baseball at the Summer Olympics had its unofficial debut at the 1904 Summer Games and has been contested in 12 Olympiads (including its centennial in 2004 Athens). Since then, 17 different nations have appeared in Olympic baseball competition, with three of those nations-- Cuba, Italy and Japan-- appearing in all four medal editions of the tournament. Baseball has a long history as an exhibition sport in the Olympics. However, for 1992 Barcelona the International Olympic Committee (IOC) granted the sport medal status. At the IOC meeting in July 11, 2005, baseball and softball were voted out of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, becoming the first sport voted out of the Olympics since polo was eliminated from the 1936 Olympics.
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