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TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 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 the 83-year-old former prime minister further erodes confidence in organisers’ ability to pull off the postponed Summer Games during a coronavirus pandemic.
A selection committee made up of an equal number of men and women, and centred around athletes, would choose a new president for the Tokyo 2020 organising committee, the group’s chief executive Toshiro Muto told a news conference.
Tokyo Olympics chief to quit; anointed successor pulls out
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Tokyo: Tokyo 2020 Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori said he was resigning on Friday over sexist comments, and his anointed successor has reportedly turned down the job after public criticism, less than six months before the troubled Games are scheduled to start.
Mori, a former Japanese prime minister, sparked a global outcry with sexist comments made during an Olympic committee meeting earlier this month that women talk too much.
“If my presence causes trouble, our efforts so far have been brought to nothing,” Mori told a meeting of senior officials of the Organising Committee.