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The third language China enlisted the help of Major League Baseball to prepare their national team for the Olympics. In Peoria, Arizona to train, two different cultures are meshing around one single sport.
Off the Olympic schedule in 2012, baseball will feature an 8-team round-robin schedule to determine who qualifies for the medal bracket.
A look at how the Japanese baseball team clinched its Olympic berth in December of 2007.
Some photos from the two Athens Games semifinals in baseball, featuring Canada vs. Cuba and Japan vs. Australia.
Cuba defeated Australia, 6-2, in a controversial game where an Australian rally was ended by an incorrect ruling regarding a catch at the wall by Cuba.
A look at Japan's 11-2 trouncing of Canada to earn the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Games.
It was celebration time for the Cuban baseball team after it beat Australia for the gold in Athens. Japan earned the bronze by beating Canada.
The United States proved its 2006 Olympic qualifying gold medal was no fluke with another gold-medal win over the Cubans.
