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Tokyo Olympics Chief Quits, Apologises Again Over Sexist Remarks

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Tokyo Olympics Chief Quits, Apologises Again Over Sexist Remarks

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Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori resigned on Friday and apologised again for sexist remarks that sparked a global outcry, leaving the troubled Olympics searching for a chief five months from the opening ceremony.

The resignation of former Prime Minister Mori, 83, will further erode confidence in the organisers’ ability to pull off the postponed Summer Games during a coronavirus pandemic.

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A Tokyo 2020 board member told reporters the new president would be chosen by a selection committee.

Among the candidates being considered to succeed him was Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto, media said.Hashimoto, 56, is a seven-time Olympian and pioneering female lawmaker.

Her first name is based on the Japanese words for the Olympic flame and she was born just days before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics opened.

Mori sparked a furore when he said during an Olympic committee meeting this month that women talk too much, setting off a chorus of calls for him to be sacked. He initially refused to step down.

“My inappropriate comments caused big trouble. I’m sorry,” Mori said at the beginning of a meeting of senior organising committee officials on Friday, adding that the most important thing was for the Tokyo Olympics to be a success.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it was “as committed as ever” to staging the Games, which are due to open on July 23.

“The IOC will continue working hand-in-hand with his successor to deliver safe and secure Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in 2021,” IOC President Thomas Bach said in a statement.

Mori said that though he may have said something unnecessary, he did not do it intentionally and felt his comments were misinterpreted by the media, adding he was not prejudiced against women.

“I have been trying to support women as much as possible, and I have been trying to support women more than men so they can speak,” he said.

“There were times when people would not put their hands up and not speak up, and I would go out of my way to say … ‘please speak’ and I feel that women have been able to speak a lot.”

Mori on Thursday had asked the mayor of the Olympic Village, 84-year-old Saburo Kawabuchi, to take over the job but by Friday, amid public dismay that the chosen successor was another older man, media reported that Kawabuchi turned the job down.

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“We will set up a committee to look into candidates and make a selection. It will be carried out according to rules,” board member Kunihiko Koyama told reporters after the meeting.

Broadcaster Fuji News Network quoted a government source as saying: “We can’t give the impression that things have changed unless we install a woman or see a generational shift.”

Top government spokesman Katsunobu Kato declined to comment on the issue or on reports about Mori’s successor, adding that things would be done according to procedures and in a transparent manner.

The Mori controversy has done “serious reputational damage” to the Tokyo Olympics, said one source involved in the Games, requesting anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter and adding that many officials want a woman to replace Mori.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, herself a pioneer as Tokyo’s first female leader, avoided a direct answer when asked during a news conference who Mori’s successor should be, but said the person should embody Olympic ideals of inclusivity and be somebody the world can accept.

“Diversity and harmony – that’s something that the person at the top needs to understand, embody and broadcast,” she said.

“I think this is an essential thing.”

Tammy Parlour, head of the Women’s Sports Trust in Britain, told Reuters in an email that the Olympics were a chance to showcase equality.

“The wider issue is not what one man says though, but how the Olympic movement can capitalise on its visibility to promote brilliant women across all sports and create greater diversity behind the scenes in leadership positions,” she said. (Reuters/NAN)

Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori resigned on Friday and apologised again for sexist remarks that sparked a global outcry, leaving the troubled Olympics searching for a chief five months from the opening ceremony.

The resignation of former Prime Minister Mori, 83, will further erode confidence in the organisers’ ability to pull off the postponed Summer Games during a coronavirus pandemic.

A Tokyo 2020 board member told reporters the new president would be chosen by a selection committee.

Among the candidates being considered to succeed him was Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto, media said.Hashimoto, 56, is a seven-time Olympian and pioneering female lawmaker.

Her first name is based on the Japanese words for the Olympic flame and she was born just days before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics opened.

Mori sparked a furore when he said during an Olympic committee meeting this month that women talk too much, setting off a chorus of calls for him to be sacked. He initially refused to step down.

“My inappropriate comments caused big trouble. I’m sorry,” Mori said at the beginning of a meeting of senior organising committee officials on Friday, adding that the most important thing was for the Tokyo Olympics to be a success.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it was “as committed as ever” to staging the Games, which are due to open on July 23.

“The IOC will continue working hand-in-hand with his successor to deliver safe and secure Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in 2021,” IOC President Thomas Bach said in a statement.

Mori said that though he may have said something unnecessary, he did not do it intentionally and felt his comments were misinterpreted by the media, adding he was not prejudiced against women.

“I have been trying to support women as much as possible, and I have been trying to support women more than men so they can speak,” he said.

“There were times when people would not put their hands up and not speak up, and I would go out of my way to say … ‘please speak’ and I feel that women have been able to speak a lot.”

Mori on Thursday had asked the mayor of the Olympic Village, 84-year-old Saburo Kawabuchi, to take over the job but by Friday, amid public dismay that the chosen successor was another older man, media reported that Kawabuchi turned the job down.

“We will set up a committee to look into candidates and make a selection. It will be carried out according to rules,” board member Kunihiko Koyama told reporters after the meeting.

Broadcaster Fuji News Network quoted a government source as saying: “We can’t give the impression that things have changed unless we install a woman or see a generational shift.”

Top government spokesman Katsunobu Kato declined to comment on the issue or on reports about Mori’s successor, adding that things would be done according to procedures and in a transparent manner.

The Mori controversy has done “serious reputational damage” to the Tokyo Olympics, said one source involved in the Games, requesting anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter and adding that many officials want a woman to replace Mori.

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Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, herself a pioneer as Tokyo’s first female leader, avoided a direct answer when asked during a news conference who Mori’s successor should be, but said the person should embody Olympic ideals of inclusivity and be somebody the world can accept.

“Diversity and harmony – that’s something that the person at the top needs to understand, embody and broadcast,” she said.

“I think this is an essential thing.”

Tammy Parlour, head of the Women’s Sports Trust in Britain, told Reuters in an email that the Olympics were a chance to showcase equality.

“The wider issue is not what one man says though, but how the Olympic movement can capitalise on its visibility to promote brilliant women across all sports and create greater diversity behind the scenes in leadership positions,” she said. (Reuters/NAN)

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