Published February 12, 2021, 12:38 PM
In this file photo taken on April 03, 2015 Saburo Kawabuchi, former Japan Football Association chairman and chairman of a task force to merge Japan’s two basketball league speaks at a press conference in Tokyo. (Photo by YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP)
Equality activists called for more radical reform by Tokyo Olympics organisers on Friday, as Games chiefs prepare to replace one octogenarian male president with another after a sexism row.
Saburo Kawabuchi, 84, is groomed to take over as head of the Games, with 83-year-old Yoshiro Mori expected to resign after his claims that women talk too much in meetings sparked a groundswell of condemnation.