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Schiller Steps Down From America's Cup Post To Focus On Oly Baseball, USA Team Handball

Former USOC Exec Dir HARVEY SCHILLER will focus on baseball’s return to the Olympics, USA Team Handball and a long-delayed shoulder replacement surgery once he steps down from his job as commercial commissioner of America’s Cup on Aug. 31. Schiller is leaving the body nine months before the '17 race series starts in Bermuda, but he believes the business framework is settled. “It’s a sailing event next year,” he said. “All the business deals are done and broadcast deals are done, and the event management part has been practiced and practiced and practiced.” Schiller's departure comes amid a complaint from the New Zealand team that is now in arbitration concerning the America’s Cup Events Authority's '15 decision to move qualifying races out of Auckland. He declined to comment on that. First as an advisory board member and then as commissioner, Schiller played a key role in a series of changes to the sailing property designed to make it more marketable by standardizing competition schedules and bringing them closer to major population centers.

WORKING ON BASEBALL, TEAM HANDBALL: Schiller has promised to help the Int'l Baseball-Softball Confederation address issues related to its inclusion in the '20 Toyko Games. He is the past-president of the IBF. He will help develop the format of the tournament and determine ways the sport can lobby future bid cities -- L.A., Paris, Rome and Budapest, namely -- to consider keeping the sport in the program beyond '20. "There is a difference between what the federation wants and what the Tokyo organizers want in terms of number of teams, and Major League Baseball is really considering what level of player to put into that,” he said. Schiller also is President & Chair of USA Team Handball, the only Olympic team sport in which the U.S. did not qualify for Rio. It enjoyed something of a boost in visibility thanks to NBC airing several Olympic matches on its cable channels, but still faces a long path to international relevancy. The body had the third most interest among fans interested in learning the sport, according to NBC’s “Gold Map” feature designed to connect viewers to local sport programs, Schiller said. The NGB will be running men's and women’s tryouts soon and hoping to lure more sponsors and donors.

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