Tokyo Olympic baseball "final qualifying" again postponed March 26 at 14:38
After the Tokyo Olympics were postponed for about one year, the "final qualifying" for baseball Olympic participation, which was scheduled to be held in Taiwan in June, will be postponed again. Was.
This was announced by WBSC = World Baseball Softball Federation.
The “final qualifying” for the last one frame of baseball at the Tokyo Olympics was originally scheduled to be held in Taiwan early next month, but was postponed to June due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection. Had been
Following the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics by about one year, the WBSC held a meeting on the 25th to decide to further postpone the "Final Qualifying".
Along with the similarly postponed "American Qualifier", it means adjusting the new schedule.
Six baseball teams will participate in the Tokyo Olympics. In addition to Japan, the host country, Israel won the European and African qualifiers last September, Korea ranked second in the “Premier 12” last November, and ranked third. Four Mexican teams have already qualified.
There will be 6 finals in the final qualifiers, including Taiwan, Australia, China, the Netherlands, and the 2nd and 3rd place teams that missed the qualification in the Americas qualifiers.