August 13th, 2007 by OlympicNews
Softball at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing will be held over a ten day period starting August 12 and culminating with the medal finals on August 21. All games will be played at the Fengtai Softball Field. Olympic softball is competed by women only, men compete in the similar sport of baseball.
The International Olympic Committee has voted to remove softball from the program for the 2012 Olympic Games, so this is the last time that softball will be contested at the Olympics unless it is reinstated at a future date.
BEIJING 2008 Sports
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August 13th, 2007 by OlympicNews
The events programme for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is quite similar to that of the Athens Games held in 2004. The 2008 Olympics will see the return of 28 sports, and will hold 302 events (165 men’s events, 127 women’s events, and 10 mixed events), one more event in total than in Athens.The following are the sports to be contested at the games (The number of events to be contested in each sport is indicated in parentheses):
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