{"id":50948,"date":"2022-12-07T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/07\/tokyo-olympics-bribery-scandal-threatens-sapporo-winter-games-bid"},"modified":"2022-12-07T10:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:00:26","slug":"tokyo-olympics-bribery-scandal-threatens-to-derail-winter-games-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50948","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics bribery scandal threatens to derail Winter Games bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese official says corruption claims could damage Sapporo\u2019s chances of hosting 2030 event<\/p>\n<p>More than a year after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo Olympics<\/a> were held in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, their legacy has been overshadowed by a bribery scandal that threatens to derail a bid by another Japanese city to host the Winter Games.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, as officials in Sapporo, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan\u2019<\/a>s northernmost main island of Hokkaido, promoted their bid for the 2030 Games, police arrested Haruyuki Takahashi, a former Tokyo Olympics executive, on suspicion of taking bribes in return for helping companies become official sponsors for last year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/07\/tokyo-olympics-bribery-scandal-threatens-sapporo-winter-games-bid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese official says corruption claims could damage Sapporo\u2019s chances of hosting 2030 eventMore than a year after the Tokyo Olympics were held in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, their legacy has been overshadowed by a bribery scandal that threat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3475,"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":[41,88,342,203,882,1716,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-sport","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-winter-olympics","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\/50948","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\/3475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50949,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50948\/revisions\/50949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}