Tokyo Games volunteers pulling out after committee chief Mori's sexist remarks

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Tokyo Games volunteers pulling out after committee chief Mori's sexist remarks
The Mainichi
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Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games organizing committee, discusses his own remarks about female board members, at a news conference in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Feb. 4, 2021. (Pool photo)
TOKYO -- A growing number of people appear to be turning away from volunteering for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in part of the wider fallout from sexist remarks by the event's organizing committee chief.
"I'd just attended a meeting for volunteers the other day, but now my motivation is gone," said a 54-year-old man who lives in the east Japan prefecture of Saitama. He applied to volunteer because he "wanted to contribute to the local area," and was supposed to guide visitors at stations near games venues in the prefecture.

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