Tokyo Olympics organizers to discuss chief's 'inappropriate' remark

The Tokyo Olympics organizing committee is planning to meet this week to discuss the uproar over the remark made by their chief Yoshiro Mori, according Kyodo News.

Mori, an 83-year-old former prime minister, provoked anger for suggesting that meetings with women take longer than usual, adding further public doubt over the safe and smooth hosting of the Summer Olympics.

On Tuesday, the Japan Olympic Committee chief said Mori's comments on women were "extremely inappropriate" and against the Olympic spirit.

(Cover: Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori enters a venue for a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, February 4, 2021. /Reuters)

(With input from Reuters)