Although the momentum appears to be swinging in favor of wrestling for reinstatement to the 2020 Summer Olympics, one legend of baseball has his own agenda in mind — Sadaharu Oh wants baseball and softball to return to the Olympics.
Unfortunately for the world record home run king, most are predicting that wrestling will mark its return to the Summer Games as opposed to a combined baseball-softball bid, or least of all squash, when the International Olympic Committee votes on Sept. 8 in Buenos Aires to include one additional sport.
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