The newly merged baseball and softball confederation is competing with karate, roller sports, squash, sport climbing, wakeboard and wushu, a martial art, for a place on the 2020 schedule.
There they will have to throw their hat into the ring with the seven other sports – baseball/softball, karate, roller sports, squash, sport climbing, wakeboarding and wushu – currently bidding for inclusion on the 2020 programme, in making presentations to the IOC.
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Tunbridge Wells Squash Club on London Road is a traditional Squash (sport) club with three courts and a thriving membership.
The others vying for that single spot: karate, squash, roller sport, sport climbing, wakeboarding, wushu and a combined bid from baseball and softball, which were were voted out of the Olympics in 2005 in a move that was widely interpreted as a rejection of American dominance.
It will now compete with with seven other sports - baseball/softball, squash, karate, sport climbing, wakeboarding, wushu and roller sports - for a place in the 2020 Games.
That list includes baseball and softball, which have combined forces, along with squash, karate, sport climbing, wakeboarding, wushu and roller sports.
Rugby Sevens is one of seven sports - baseball, softball, golf, squash, roller sports and karate are the others - from which two will be selected.
Still, along with squash, roller sports may not have enough widespread international appeal to make the Olympic program.
Once children are a bit older, there's the battery of ballet, piano, squash (offbeat sports viewed as an inroad to Harvard), and the vehicles needed to get there.
Previous attempts to make squash an Olympic sport failed with the International Olympic Committee, which expressed concern at difficulties televising the sport.
