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Tokyo 2020 organizers approve baseball-softball in Fukushima


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Japan's Fukushima Prefecture could play a part in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after organizers on Wednesday approved a plan to hold part of the baseball-softball competition in the disaster-hit region. Baseball is returning to the Olympics for the first time since Beijing 2008 and organizers are keen to play a part in helping the region - parts of which are still uninhabitable - get back on its feet. International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach raised the possibility of Fukushima opening the baseball-softball competition at the World Forum on Sport and Culture in Tokyo last month.

 

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