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Originally posted by John Robertson
(...)This decision smacks of anti-Americanism to me.(...)
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Sorry Sir. I cannot understand how can you be so America-centric.
Do you ever mind what Olympic Softball means to countries where softball is NOT sport number one (and neither in the first ten)?
National team at the Olympics in Italy meant in the past some money from the National Olympic Committee to the Fed. for let young girls play softball at school.
I saw girls from Botswana play softball. At a Junior European Championship I saw players from Bashkiria (a far region of Russia) play after they had 48hours-trip by bus to reach Prague and play softball.
Can you imagine all this?
Or is softball just an american business?
I am sad beacause I KNOW what softball can represent for hundreds of girls and women all over the world.
And softball is not a female sport only because it is
played by female athletes. Think about this: how many female umpires you can see in any other female olympic sport?
A.