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'Torch Relay Runner Withdraws Over Mori Remark'

Coverage of the fallout from Tokyo Olympics organizing committee head Yoshiro Mori saying the quiet part out loud with regard to most Japanese men's opinion of women. Japan is ranked 121st out of 153 countries worldwide on gender equality. Torch Relay Runner Withdraws Over Mori Remark More Volunteers Withdraw Over Mori's Remarks London Boots Comedian Quits Torch Relay Over Remarks by Mori
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Road Work Continues on Sapporo 2021 Olympic Marathon Course

If things had been different, the Tokyo Olympics would have been starting about a month from now. Due to the coronavirus crisis that's been postponed a year, but in Sapporo work on the marathon course continues to move forward. The roads around Sapporo's Odori Park where the world's top athletes are scheduled to run are being made smooth and clean. Since it began in April, road work on the Olympic marathon course in the city center has been done at night. The course starts at Odori Park. After following a 20 km loop through the city, runners will cover two more laps of the northern half of the loop. The focus of the work being done by the city's department of public works is to minimize the difference in height between manholes and the surrounding pavement in order to reduce the risk of runners falling. Project head Koji Achira commented, "As this is a marathon course our work is being done with great care to make sure there are no differences in height....
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Tokyo Olympics Marathon Course To Be Measured By End of Year, Test Event Planned

At a press conference in Sapporo on June 23, the organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games announced plans to have the Olympic marathon course in Sapporo measured and certified before the end of the year. The announcement marked a return to preparation for the Olympics, which had been suspended due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The organizers also plan to stage a test event on the course next year at some point from March through May. Organizing committee executive Yoshiro Mori  commented, "Whether it will be a half or full marathon is still a topic for discussion." City officials have responded positively to requests for use of Ohori Park and other locations, and confirmed that road work on the marathon course is expected to be mostly completed in July this year. source article: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/5f32081ac224265b8564fa6bcb33e2088caa20b0 translated by Brett Larner
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Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee Head Mori: "It Is Essential That IOC Takes Its Share of Responsibility" for Costs of Postponement

Tokyo Olympic and Paralympics Games Organizing Committee head Yoshiro Mor i appeared on a morning news program on Mar. 28 to talk about the rescheduling of the 2020 Games. "I'd like to reach a decision within the next week," he said, indicating that a specific timeframe would be determined soon. "Even last night, officials the IOC, the Organizing Committee, the Metropolitan Government and the National Government were at work beginning to make administrative changes," Mori said. But at the same, factions are already starting to form around the question of who will pay for the costs associated with postponing the Games. Mori bluntly commented, "The IOC is trying not to put up any money for this, but given the nature of the problem this time with the virus outbreak it is not a question of who bears responsibility. The Metropolitan Government, the Organizing Committee and the National Government are all sharing some of the responsibility, so it is essential...
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Governor Koike Expresses Hope that Tokyo Olympic Marathon Will Move Back to Tokyo in Event of Spring Olympics

If @Tokyo2020 is held outside peak summer months of July/Aug next year, do you want to see marathon and race walks stay in Sapporo or move back to original courses in Tokyo? もし東京五輪が来年7月・8月以外で開催されるとしたら、マラソンと競歩は札幌、元の東京、どちらがいい？ @joc — Japan Running News (@JRNHeadlines) March 25, 2020 On Mar. 27 Governor Yuriko Koike , 67, spoke to the media at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government offices and on a morning news program about the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. "This is heavily premised on the assumption that the novel coronavirus will be under containment. The Olympics were postponed due to the coronavirus problem to begin with, and naturally, a decision should be made only after solving it," she said, emphasizing the expectation that the virus situation will be resolved. Should the Olympics be rescheduled for spring, 2021 or another time outside the peak summer heat, the Governor also expressed her hope that the marathons and race walks would be staged in Tokyo as o...
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IOC and World Athletics Officials On Sapporo Junket to See Potential Olympic Marathon Course

IOC and World Athletics officials are in Sapporo to see the potential course for next summer's Tokyo Olympics marathon. On the morning of Dec. 14, a group of around 20 officials from both groups and members of the Olympic Games Organizing Committee visited Odori Park, the designated start and finish point for the marathon. The first 20 km of the course have been set, but the remaining section has yet to be determined. The Organizing Committee wants to use the same 20 km loop for the second half of the race, but World Athletics insists upon using three laps of a 7 km loop. The visiting officials will tour the course by bus until 4:00 p.m., hopefully using the experience to finalize the rest of the course at some point in the near future. Organizing Committee executive Yoshiro Mori commented, "All three groups are thinking in terms of wrapping it up next week." source articles: http://www.news24.jp/nnn/news16434946.html https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20191214-...
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IOC's Coates Insists Sapporo 2020 Men's Marathon Be Held on Last Day of Olympics

Speaking about the relocation of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics road events to Sapporo at a press conference in Sydney on Nov. 13, IOC coordination committee chairperson John Coates reiterated the IOC's insistence that the men's marathon be staged on the final day of the Olympics, Aug. 9, saying, "It is to be held on the last day of the Olympics, and the athletes must be put on a plane and returned (to Tokyo) in time for the closing ceremonies." In response to the IOC's edict that the premier event of the Olympics, the men's marathon, be moved out of Tokyo to Sapporo, 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee head Yoshiro Mori had indicated that the date of the men's marathon would be changed in order to overcome the logistical impossibilities created by the move to Sapporo. The IOC responded by saying the marathon was still to be held on the 9th . "No final decision has yet been made, but the organizers should be prepared to hold it on...
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IOC Tells Olympic Organizers It Still Wants Men's Marathon Held on Final Day

2020 Tokyo Olympics organizing committee deputy secretary general Toshiro Muto met with Sapporo mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto and Hokkaido governor Naomichi Suzuki in Sapporo on Nov. 8. Just one day after organizing committee head Yoshiro Mori had said that the men's marathon would be moved from the final date of the Olympics , Muto indicated that the committee would be reexamining that idea. Faced by the need to have a marathon course ready for approval by the IOC's board of directors at its Dec. 2-4 meeting, Muto visited the three candidate locations for the course's start and finish point, Odori Park, Sapporo Dome and Maruyama Park. In a reversal of Mori's remarks the previous day about the need to change the date of the Olympic men's marathon, Muto was forced to make a correction. At 9:00 a.m., Muto met first with Mayor Akimoto and then Governor Suzuki. Following the meetings, in response to a question from a reporter Muto commented on the situation, saying, ...
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2020 Olympics Men’s Marathon Date to Be Changed

Tokyo 2020 Olympic organizing committee head Yoshiro Mori attended meetings in Sapporo Nov. 7 with Hokkaido governor Naomichi Suzuki and Sapporo mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto to ask them for their support and cooperation in holding the Olympic marathons and race walk events in Sapporo after the IOC dictated that this happen. Indicating for the first time that neither the city nor prefecture would be asked to pay for the events, Mori said, “We want to make sure that there is no burden placed upon Hokkaido.” At a meeting about the road events’ forced move to Sapporo between the IOC, national government, Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Tokyo Olympics organizing committee on Nov. 1, it was agreed that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government would not shoulder the costs of the IOC’s decree. The IOC had said that Hokkaido and Sapporo should share in paying for the cost of the events’ relocation, but in the meeting with Mori on Nov. 7 the Governor and Mayor reiterated their position that, “It i...
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Tokyo Governor Koike Gives Up On IOC's Sapporo Edict: "Tokyo Does Not Agree With IOC's Decree But Chooses Not to Interfere"

On the final day of the International Olympic Committee coordination commission meeting in Tokyo, top-level talks between the IOC, Tokyo Olympic Games Organizing Committee, Japan Olympic Committee, Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Japanese National Government on the IOC's plan to move the 2020 Tokyo Olympics marathons and race walks to Sapporo convened at noon. IOC coordination commission chairperson John Coates decreed, "Regarding the marathons and race walk events, it is the IOC that has the authority to determine whether an event venue will be changed. Taking into consideration the expenses already incurred by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and local organizing committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will not be asked to pay for any additional expenses. There will be no further venue changes." Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike replied somewhat antagonistically, "Am I allowed to speak on this, sir, or am I only allowed to say yes or no?" Coates elev...
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Tokyo Olympics Organizers Request Introduction of Daylight Saving Time

2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games organizing committee chair Yoshiro Mori met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to request the introduction of daylight saving time to Japan, telling the Prime Minister, "I want it to be introduced even just for the summer of the Games." Mori is seeking a 1 to 2 hour time shift as a measure against the expected hot conditions. "I want daylight saving time to to be introduced because that way what's now 5:00 a.m. would become 7:00 a.m.," he said. source article: https://www.mbs.jp/news/zenkokunews/20180727/3432175.shtml translated by Brett Larner
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