ISF Campaigns for Softball's Return in 2016

The International Softball Federation announced a "Back Softball" campaign to push for the sport to be reinstated in the 2016 Olympic Games. ISF President, Don Porter, says the Federation is focusing on spreading softball to more countries in different areas of the world. The idea is to develop the sports so that more countries are able to compete at the highest level.

The next chance for softball to regain its Olympic status will come in 2009, when the IOC will select the sports for the 2016 Games. After working for about 30 years to get softball included in the Olympics, Porter is not about to give up on getting softball a second chance in the Olympics.

Two-time Olympic gold medalist, Michele Smith, visited President Bush last month as an honorary commissioner for a T-ball game on the White House South Lawn. Smith said the president told her he's "100 percent" behind the effort to reinstate softball.

We'll see what happens as '09 rolls around.

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