The International Olympics Committee has decided to remove baseball and softball from the list of sports included in the 2012 games. As the only Olympics sport I care about is ladies’ beach volleyball, I’ve no particular view on this one way or the other, but this comment from women’s softball player Lisa Fernandez, a three-time gold medalist, does seem a little, well, much:

“I feel one person, the president of the IOC, a person from Europe, has taken it upon himself to ruin the lives of millions, actually billions of women.”