TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Olympic organizers agreed Wednesday to hold some of the baseball and softball competition of the 2020 Games in Fukushima, the region devastated by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.
While the primary venue for baseball and softball is expected to be Yokohama Stadium, several cities in Fukushima are being considered for games in the preliminary rounds.
Fukushima is about 150 miles north of Tokyo, which is a little farther than the distance between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. Previously, the farthest (non-demonstration sport) Olympic baseball or softball games were played outside of the host city was in 1996, when softball was in Columbus, Ga.