Tokyo, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) The Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 today officially proposed the return of baseball to the summer events.
The possibility the International Olympic Committee (IOC) offers to the host country to propose new sports allowed to Tokyo-2020 suggest five disciplines, which complete karate, surfing, skateboarding and climbing.

The organizers made their selection from a list of eight candidates which also included squash, bowling and wushu, but only a couple of new changes were expected.

As baseball/softball (counted as one from December 2012 to propose the first for men and the second for women) will be the first incursion of this sport, which was present before separately.

Baseball had its official debut in Barcelona-1992 and remained on the calendar until Beijing 2008, while softball began in Atlanta-1996, and was removed from the official list after the 2008 event.

According to the Japanese, the news would involve the participation of 474 athletes more, without affecting the established limit of 10,500 athletes, and in the case of baseball / softball, it would have only six teams per category.

These proposals must be ratified at the IOC General Assembly next year, when it meets days before the Games in Rio de Janeiro-2016.