Yoshiro Mori former Prime Minister of Japan and Chief of the Tokyo Olympics who resigned for sexist remarks against women is the topic of That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary (New York Times file photo)

Tokyo’s Olympic President Steps Down after Sexist comments

That’s Amaury News and Commentary

By Amaury Pi-González

Yoshiro Mori former Prime Minister of Japan, who was the Chief of the Tokyo Olympics resigned after an uproar during an Olympic meeting when he said that women talk too much, which he found annoying. Mori, 83 years old announced his resignation.

Taking Mr. Mori’s place is Japan’s Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto who will become the new chief of the Tokyo Olympics. She is a bronze medalist and seven-time Olympian, with competition experience in both the summer and winter Olympics. “I will spare no effort in making the Tokyo games successful,” she told the Tokyo 2020 executive board after it voted on her becoming its new president. “It has to be a safe and secure games that we have to remain first and foremost and consider how we can control COVID-19”

Originally the 2020 Olympic Games were postponed until the summer of 2021 because of the covid pandemic, and they’re on schedule to open the games this summer. Olympic Games were cancelled during World War I in 1916 and World War II in 1940 and 1944, however they were never postponed. This was the first time they were postponed.

Late December 2020, Associated Press reported that the official cost of the Japan Olympics was up 22 percent to a total of $15.4 Billion dollars.

NBC is the official station for the Olympics and schedule to televise from Open to Close, from July 23, until August 8.

Stay well and stay tuned.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Oakland A’s lead play by play talent on flagship station 1010 KIQI Le Grande San Francisco