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Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing will be held over an eleven day period starting August 13 and concluding with the medal finals on August 23. All games will be played at Wukesong Baseball Field, a temporary venue constructed at the Beijing Wukesong Culture & Sports Center. Olympic baseball is competed by men only, women compete in the similar sport of softball.
The International Olympic Committee has voted to remove baseball from the program for the 2012 Olympics, so this is the last time that baseball will be contested at the Olympics unless it is reinstated at a future date.
[edit] Competition Format
Eight teams will compete in the Olympic baseball tournament, and the competition consists of two rounds. The preliminary round follows a round robin format, where each of the teams plays all the other teams once. Following this, the top four teams advance to a page playoff system round culminating in the bronze and gold medal games.
[edit] Qualification
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Note 1: Chinese Taipei is the official IOC designation for the state officially referred to as the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan. (See also political status of Taiwan for details.)
[edit] Group Stage
- August 13
- August 14
- August 15
- August 16
- August 18
- August 19
- August 20
[edit] Semifinals
[edit] Bronze Medal Match
[edit] Gold Medal Match
[edit] References
China
Havana
United States
Barcelona
Netherlands
Taichung 1 [1]
Japan
Canada
Korea
