Players, coaches and federations in several countries welcomed the return of baseball to the field. Olympic Gamesafter International Olympic Committee (IOC) will agree to include it in the 2028 edition in Los Angeles.
So the game is “bat and ball” He will return to the Olympic stage eight years after qualifying for Tokyo 2020, where the host team won but was eliminated from Paris 2024.
Carlos Roque Garciasaid Colombia’s baseball delegate at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games. EFE that “after hard work” the Olympic goal was achieved, especially because It will once again take place in the country where the sport originated.
He later added.
Baseball is a famous sport throughout North America, but because the sport is so important in American culture, this happened. We are very pleased with this achievement and hope that baseball continues.
It is currently unknown what the qualifications for Los Angeles 2028 will be, although their direct berth could be to the champion or country runner-up of the tournament. Pan American Games 2027 in Barranquilla.
“It’s something positive because baseball continues to grow,” he said. EFE Yadil MujicaCuban national team baseball player representing his country at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago.
For Mujica, 38 years old and with extensive experience in the Cuban infield, baseball “is a sport that has been modernized and improved over time, which is questionable,” so he hopes the decision made by the IOC “is good for baseball.” .
Cuba is the best Olympic champion in baseball: Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Athens 2004. And he has two silver medals, which he won in Sydney 2000 and Beijing 2008.
Two of those gold medals were won by the current pitching coach and Cuban baseball legend. Pedro Luis Lazoin Atlanta and Athens.
Therefore, for Lazo, the decision that the sport he has proudly represented for more than two decades in all parts of the world has defined him as EFE as “very good”, especially since it will be held in the United States, “the country where baseball is played the most in the world.”
Pedro Luis Lazo.
“For me, the best thing about baseball is the Olympic Games,” said the winner of numerous medals in international competitions, including silver in the first edition of the Olympic Games. 2006 World Baseball Classic.
The World Baseball Classic itself was organized with the help of both Major League Baseball and the International Baseball Federation, as an alternative after the IOC ruled out a hot ball in Paris 2024 following the 2008 Games in Beijing.
Likewise, the Classic provides an opportunity for professional baseball players from their home countries to represent their country, which was not the case at the Olympics.
To date, five Classic tournaments have already been held, three of which were won by Japan, and the others by the Dominican Republic and the United States.
With that in mind, Lazo said that playing at the Olympics “doesn’t compare” to playing in the Classics.
“The Classics have some interests, and the Olympics have different interests. For me, the best event in the world is the Olympics,” he emphasized without hesitation.
(according to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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