{"id":461706,"date":"2021-02-09T05:49:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=461706"},"modified":"2021-02-09T16:17:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T23:17:41","slug":"ioc-describes-comments-by-tokyo-2020-chief-mori-as-absolutely-inappropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ioc-describes-comments-by-tokyo-2020-chief-mori-as-absolutely-inappropriate\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC Describes Comments By Tokyo 2020 Chief Mori As &#8220;Absolutely Inappropriate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ioc-president-thomas-bach-addresses-tokyo-games-cancellation-rumors-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>International Olympic Committee<\/strong><\/a> said on Tuesday that comments about women made by <a href=\"https:\/\/tokyo2020.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tokyo 2020<\/a> chief <strong>Yoshiro Mori<\/strong> were \u201cabsolutely inappropriate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mori has been subject to intense criticism since saying last week in a meeting of the <strong>Japanese Olympic Committee<\/strong> that meetings with female participants take a long time and that they talk too much,\u00a0driven by a \u201cstrong sense of rivalry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">He later apologised and retracted his comments while also attempting to justify them, inviting further criticism.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IOC, the Tokyo Games organising committee also described Mori&#8217;s comments as inappropriate with broadcaster NHK reporting that <strong>TOCOG<\/strong> will convene a special board meeting as early as Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"424262\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/the-week-that-was-russia-sports-minister-wants-doping-ban-dropped-so-sports-can-come-together-in-coronavirus-crisis\/tokyo2021\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,733\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1585060874&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tokyo2021\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;tokyo2021&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021-700x500.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021.jpeg\" class=\" wp-image-424262 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021-700x500.jpeg\" alt=\"tokyo 2021 - 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