Mori resigned as chief organizer – NEUE Vorarlberger Tageszeitung

The 83 year old Former Prime Minister Mori took at an online board meeting from the approval of the summer games to the planned doubling of the Quota of women in management bodies Forty percent of sports associations said that women talk a lot, so board meetings take time. Mori had apologized for the statement, but the storm of outrage continued. On Thursday, the media reported, citing informed sources, that Mori will resign. A special meeting of the organizing committee was called for Friday.

the Japanese television station Nippon TV Mori said Thursday that he did not want the matter to drag on any longer. He wanted the games to be good, so preparations had to be advanced. “We don’t have any more time,” quoted announcer Mori. Saburo Kawabuchi, founder of the Japanese professional soccer league J. League and former president of the Japan Soccer Association, is reportedly under discussion as his successor.

Mori has been quoted as saying that women have a strong sense of rivalry. “If either of you raises your hand, you probably think you have to say something too. And then everyone says something. ” There was a storm of criticism. Around 390 volunteer Olympic helpers declared that they did not want to take up their honorary position in protest. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike announced, according to the media, that she was not in a meeting with Mori, Japan’s Olympic minister, scheduled for the middle of this month. Seiko Hashimoto and IOC President Thomas Bach participate in the preparation of the games.

The Japanese CO called Mori’s statements inappropriate and underlined her commitment to gender equality. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) also claimed that the statements made by the Japanese official were “absolutely inappropriate and contrary to the obligations of the IOC and the reforms of its 2020 Olympic Agenda.”

Mori retracted her words. However, there were no open calls for the resignation of those responsible. Mori is the gray eminence of the most powerful group in the ruling LDP party and, as the leader of a long-time rugby association, is linked to politics and sport like no other.

Current Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and other high-ranking PLD politicians only berated Mori, no one wanted to talk about resignation. However, the scandal is another big problem for Japan’s Olympic organizers who, despite the current corona pandemic, want to open the summer games in Tokyo with 11,000 athletes, which have been postponed a year due to the crown, and then the Paralympics with 4,400 athletes. on July 23. Less than six months before the Games, they are moving ahead with preparations for the Games. Japan, which is often overshadowed by mighty China, wants to once again attract the world’s attention with this mega show.

In polls, the vast majority of the population is in favor of postponing the games in Tokyo again or even canceling them altogether. And now the Mori scandal, damaging Japan’s reputation. According to NHK television station, 36 out of 70 Olympic sponsors recently described Mori’s remarks as unacceptable.