How to become an Olympic sport

All baseball fans frustrated that the sport will be dropped from the Olympics after this year’s tournament will be interested in reading this story from the BBC website detailing allegations that a Japanese cycling event, the keirin, “may have bought its way into the Olympic Games“.

To pick out a pertinent quote from the article: “critics say that the system by which events go in and go out of the Olympics is seriously flawed, with little or no oversight”.

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