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Tokyo Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori yesterday apologised for making sexist remarks about women, saying he retracted the comments and would not resign, despite calls for him to step down on social media. The hashtag “Mori, please resign” was trending on Twitter in Japan yesterday and some users on the platform were calling on sponsors to pressure the Tokyo organising committee into dropping Mori from the top post. The 83-year-old Mori, a former Japanese prime minister and head of the Tokyo organising committee, acknowledged that his comments that women board members talked too much were “inappropriate” and against the Olympic spirit. Mori made the comments at a Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC)

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