Tokyo Olympics Names New Chief Just Months Before Games

TOKYO—The Tokyo Olympic arranging committee named a cupboard minister and female Olympic bronze medalist as its new main right after the previous chief resigned around sexist remarks.

Seiko Hashimoto, fifty six, gets to be 1 of the handful of girls atop a important group in Japan, where nearly all big-organization main executives are adult males. Nevertheless, the appointment brings its own controversy since of an incident at the Winter Video games seven years back when Ms. Hashimoto was accused of harassing a male athlete.

The selection Thursday will come just five months ahead of the scheduled opening of the Summer months Olympics in Tokyo on July 23, with considerably continue to uncertain about how the Video games can commence underneath pandemic problems. Officials say they have not determined regardless of whether to let in overseas spectators.

Japan started vaccinating its inhabitants towards Covid-19 this 7 days underneath a timetable that tends to make it most likely most individuals will not have photographs by the start off of the Video games. The Global Olympic Committee is encouraging athletes to get photographs, while it states vaccination is not a prerequisite for competing at the Video games.

Ms. Hashimoto has been a member of Parliament’s upper residence given that 1995 and served in Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s cupboard as Olympics minister, a write-up she gave up to just take on the presidency of the Olympic arranging committee.