News (Olympics)
-
BBF & BSF statement on baseball and softball at the LA28 Olympics
16 October 2023
The British Baseball Federation, British Softball Federation and BaseballSoftballUK have released a statement regarding the announcement of the LA28 Olympic Programme made at the 141st International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Mumbai
-
GB Softball Media Day - Watch Now!
10 July 2023
The GB Women's Senior Team held a Media Day on 4 July at Bisham Abbey -- watch all of the content here!
-
GB Women’s Fastpitch & GB Baseball awarded increased UK Sport funding
13 February 2023
UK Sport has confirmed an additional £90,000 of funding into Great Britain's baseball and women's fastpitch softball senior national teams.
-
Vote to put softball and baseball on the Olympic programme in 2028
18 August 2022
Please take a minute to vote for softball and baseball to be restored to the Olympic programme in Los Angeles in 2028 in a poll being conducted by influential website magazine Inside the Games.
-
GB Softball to receive £288,750 in Olympic funding
30 March 2021
BaseballSoftballUK (BSUK), the British Softball Federation (BSF) and UK Sport today announced that the GB Women’s Senior Fastpitch Softball Team has been awarded £288,750 from UK Sport's National Squads Support Fund for the 2024 Olympic cycle.
-
Final line-up announced for Olympic softball
20 October 2019
Australia defeated China by a score of 9-3 on Sunday 29 September in the final of the Asia/Oceania Olympic Softball Qualifier to complete the line-up of teams that will compete in the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo next summer.
-
GB Women fall to Italy at the final hurdle
2 August 2019
The final game at the Europe/Africa Olympic Qualifier on Saturday afternoon turned out to be one game too far for the GB Women's Fastpitch Team. Behind the evergreen Greta Cecchetti, Italy won the game 5-0 and claimed the place at the Tokyo Olympics.
-
GB and Italy will play for Olympic place
26 July 2019
After all the possible permutations for deciding which European team will go to the Tokyo Olympics next year, everything is suddenly very clear: GB and Italy will play at 3.00 tomorrow (Saturday) and the winner will claim the place.
-
GB Women upset the Dutch at the Qualifier
25 July 2019
The GB Women's Fastpitch Team kept their nerve in a tense gritty game of softball on a field still baking after record temperatures and upset the Netherlands 5-2 on Thursday evening to move one big step closer to Tokyo.