#Tokyo 2020’s new president #SeikoHashimoto on Thursday vowed to “regain trust” in the #Olympic organising committee after an embarrassing sexism row, with just over five months until the virus-postponed Games. Hashimoto, a seven-time Olympian, had been one of just two women in Japan’s cabinet, serving as Olympic minister before stepping down to take the key post. FRANCE 24’s Michael Penn has more.
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Tokyo Olympics is doomed.
She is in the midst of the scandal now in Japan. back in 2014, Seiko Hashimoto, the chief of the Japan Skating Federation of the day, forcibly kissed in Daisuke Takahashi, a figure skater, as abusing her position.