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Seiko Hashimoto competed as a speed skater in four Winter Games and as a cyclist in three Summer Games. She replaces Yoshiro Mori, who resigned under pressure after complaining women talk too much.
On a day when Olympic organizing committee members hoped to close the door on a sexism scandal, an elderly lawmaker of the ruling party decided to give his thoughts on “manly” women. Wataru Takeshita, 76, a Lower House member who heads his own faction in the Liberal Democratic Party, was apparently trying to defend Seiko Hashimoto, the choice for new Tokyo Olympic organizing committee chief, but he ended up uttering statements that were quickly retracted by his aides. Speaking to reporters on Feb. 18, he described Hashimoto as “having a personality of a man in the skating world because ...
Major Donor to Britain’s Conservative Party Linked to Russian Corruption Scandal Patrick Elliot, Franz Wild A Russian tycoon whose company and its directors have donated £1 million ($1.3 million) to the Conservative party has been linked to an historic corruption scandal in his home country that involved businesses he was connected with pocketing enormous commissions for state contracts, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal. Viktor Fedotov, 73, was the chairman of two companies that made more than $100 million from a pipeline construction project found to be mi...