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IBAF president promotes baseball's return to Olympics
2010/02/04 22:09:00 |
Taipei, Feb. 4 (CNA) International Baseball Federation (IBAF) President Riccardo Fraccari, who is visiting Taiwan to promote his strategy for helping the return of baseball to the Olympics, met Thursday with Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) President Chao Shou-po to discuss the issue.
Advocating baseball's return to the Olympics has been one of Fraccari's major goals since he was elected IBAF president last December, according to the CPBL.
With baseball not scheduled as an event at the 2012 Olympics in London, the IBAF must push for the sport to be included in the 2016 Olympics in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, Fraccari said.
Seeking support from professional baseball groups in various countries is one way of achieving this goal, he went on.
Fraccari said he recently visited the Korea Baseball Organization, South Korea's professional baseball league and will visit Japanese and American professional baseball organizations in the hope of reaching a consensus on sharing resources in order to make baseball more global and help its return to the Olympics.
Fraccari, who also met that day with President Ma Ying-jeou, was scheduled to leave Taiwan Friday. (By Hsiao Pao-hsian and Y.L. Kao) ENDITEM/J
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