Softball will be in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

...Also, IMO, the Olympics have been going downhill since they not only allowed, but actually recruit professionals to take part.

While I tend to agree, plenty of USA athletes back in the day were about as "amateur" as Power 5 Conference football players are "students".

And, taking this to the extreme, those Soviet-bloc athletes were, in fact, professional athletes in every sense of the word being employed by the state (e.g. Soviet Army) as full-time athletes.