TOKYO, Japan — Paris will remind people of the value of hosting the Olympics, says a top official of the Tokyo 2020 Games, which were delayed by a year because of Covid and tainted by corruption.
Seiko Hashimoto, who was president of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, told AFP that the Japanese public were bitterly split over hosting the Games during the pandemic.A corruption scandal had also 'soured' the Olympics ' image in Japanese people's minds, she said.But Hashimoto hopes Paris can showcase sport at its best this month and make people in the French capital happy that their city is hosting the event.
She says without hesitation that hosting the Games was 'the right decision.''I believe the Tokyo Games left their mark in that we were able to show we could respond to various demands and still move forward with the project,' she said.'For better or worse, we hosted the Tokyo Games. Maybe there were some shortcomings, but I believe we left a good example of what can be done despite very difficult conditions.
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