Fire Up the Torch: New Sports Vie For Olympic Inclusion
The 2016 Olympics are already heating up. Seven candidates ? baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens, softball and squash ? are vying for a place at the games from 2016 onward. To find out how the process is going, The Takeaway is joined by Don Porter, the President of the Softball Federation, who is in Lausanne, Switzerland, to pitch his sport to the IOC. Also joining the discussion is Dave Zirin, sportswriter for The Nation and author of People’s History of Sports in the United States, for his take on the Olympics.
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