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WOA enhances focus on the environment and aims to create OLY-Day 04/08/21
World Olympians Association (WOA) has today announced four new Committees and a refreshed line-up for its three existing Committees. The new Committees will provide an enhanced focus for WOA on the environment, recognition and support for Olympians as well as exploring the new concept of OLY-Day.
Featuring experts in relevant fields, Olympians from across the world and WOA EXCO members, WOA’s Committees will provide the framework for establishing key strategies and resource structures to help fulfil the organisation’s mission of serving the needs of Olympians, thereby empowering them to serve the needs of society through the power of sport.
Saturday, 3 April 2021
Tokyo 2020 organisers have agreed to allow women to participate in an upcoming leg of the Olympic Torch Relay after facing criticism over permitting only men to board a traditional boat as part of the celebrations in Handa.
The Olympic Flame is scheduled to arrive in Japanese prefecture Aichi on Tuesday (April 6) where it had originally been decided that only men would be allowed to ride the decorated boat after organisers accepted a request from the Handa Municipal Government.
Women are traditionally forbidden from riding the Chintoro boat, which forms part of a local festival dating back to the Edo Era that ran from 1603 to 1868 and is set to be used to carry Olympic Torchbearers.