Tokyo
Hashimoto Seiko has appeared in seven Olympics, four in the winter and three in the summer – the most by any “multi-season” athlete in the games.
She made even more history on Thursday in Japan, where women are still rare in boardrooms and positions of political power.
Ms. Hashimoto was named president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee after a meeting of its executive board, which is 80% male. She replaces Mori Yoshiro, a former Japanese prime minister who was forced to resign last week after making sexist comments about women.
Essentially, he said women talk too much.
“Now I’m here to return what I owe as an athlete and to return back what I received,” Ms. Hashimoto told the board, according to an interpreter.
Hashimoto Seiko Takes Over as Tokyo Olympic President
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