Axed softball plots 2012 comeback

Axed from the Olympic programme three months ago, softball is refusing to go quietly. Its governing body is gearing up for a massive push to persuade IOC members to allow the sport into the London 2012 Games. "It's not too late to get on to the London...

Axed from the Olympic programme three months ago, softball is refusing to go quietly.

Its governing body is gearing up for a massive push to persuade IOC members to allow the sport into the London 2012 Games.

"It's not too late to get on to the London programme," International Softball Federation president Don Porter said after high-level talks in Lausanne with IOC president Jacques Rogge.

"We had a very positive meeting, a good discussion. There is a possibility we could still make the London Olympics. The door is open that in Turin (in February) the IOC members could reconsider their decision to wipe us from the programme."

Softball and baseball were dropped from the Olympic programme in a controversial vote at the IOC's July Session in Singapore to become the first sports to be cut from the Games since polo in 1936.

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