{"id":28140,"date":"2021-02-09T18:25:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T09:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/olympics-volunteers-resign-over-presidents-remarks-about-women"},"modified":"2021-02-09T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T13:22:50","slug":"olympics-volunteers-resign-over-presidents-remarks-about-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28140","title":{"rendered":"IOC condemns remarks about women by Tokyo chief as volunteers quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of organising committee in Japan, Yoshiro Mori, under pressure to step down as anger grows <\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has condemned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/feb\/04\/tokyo-2020-chief-pressed-to-resign-after-saying-women-talked-too-much-at-meetings\">derogatory remarks about women<\/a> by the head of the Tokyo 2020 Games organising committee, Yoshiro Mori, as \u201cabsolutely inappropriate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The unusually strong intervention came after Mori complained last week that meetings tended to drag on because \u201ccompetitive\u201d women in attendance \u201ctalked too much\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/olympics-volunteers-resign-over-presidents-remarks-about-women\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of organising committee in Japan, Yoshiro Mori, under pressure to step down as anger grows The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has condemned derogatory remarks about women by the head of the Tokyo 2020 Games organising committee, Yoshiro Mor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,342,203,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-sport","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28174,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28140\/revisions\/28174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}