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The Federal Ministry of Finance is continuing a proven tradition with this years special stamps in the For Sport series and will be issuing them in May.The Federal Ministry of Finance supports the German Sports Aid Foundation with the For Sport stamp series. Since 1968 the brands with the Plus have provided around 140 million euros in funding for social issues and tasks in the field of young and top-class sport. The Federal President is the patron of the German Sports Aid Foundation.This year the series New Olympic Sports from 2020 will be continued with three other sports that will be included for the first time or again in the program at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021.Baseball is returning to the Olympic program in Tokyo for the first time since 2008 and is only played by men at the Olympic Games. The sport is a combination of team and individual sport as well as a batball game in which the defenders bring a ball into play that the attackers have to hit with a stick. The focus is on the duel between the pitcher thrower and the batter batsman - but you can only win as a team.Softball a sport closely related to baseball is only played by women at the Olympics. The field is smaller the ball is larger and a different throwing technique is common. Otherwise the game principles of base and softball are the same.Surfing is included in the competition program for the first time as part of the Olympic discipline shortboarding. The athletes in the sea have to convince the jury with their spectacular maneuvers on the board in constantly changing conditions. For the evaluation of your performance on the wave speed power and flow play a special role. The best two waves are added to the final result. In a competitive encounter or heat for short either two or four athletes surf. It takes between 20 and 30 minutes.
