ＩＯＣは問題視せず　森会長発言

　【ロンドン時事】国際オリンピック委員会（ＩＯＣ）は４日、東京五輪・パラリンピック組織委員会の森喜朗会長が女性蔑視とも受け取れる発言をしたことについて、「森会長は本日、発言を謝罪した。これをもってＩＯＣは問題が終わったと考えている」と声明を出し、問題視しない姿勢を示した。
　ＩＯＣが定める五輪憲章では、性別を含むあらゆる差別を認めないことを原則に掲げ、２０１４年にまとめた五輪改革案「アジェンダ２０２０」でも男女平等の推進をうたっている。ＩＯＣは声明の中で「男女平等はＩＯＣの基本原則で、アジェンダ２０２０の重要な柱の一つ」と記し、女性の理事や委員の割合が増している点を強調した。（2021/02/04-20:26）

The International Olympic Committee suggested Thursday that the issue of apparently sexist remarks by Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee, has been over.
   "President Mori...apologized for his comments today. With this, the IOC considers the issue closed," the committee said in a statement.
   At a meeting of the Japanese Olympic Committee in Tokyo on Wednesday, Mori said: "Meetings of boards of directors with a lot of women take so much time. Having a strong sense of rivalry, (women) tend to follow when one person raises his or her hand."
   In talks with reporters on Thursday, Mori withdrew the remarks and offered an apology, while refusing to step down from the post of the organizing committee president.
   The Olympic Charter, set by the IOC, opposes discrimination of any kind, such as sex, and Olympic Agenda 2020, an Olympic reform plan drawn up in 2014, called for the promotion of gender equality.