Yamaguchi counters Mori’s embarrassment: The woman’s weapons

WITHtime for the first gold medal. Who knows if the Olympics will even be this summer. It jumps a tiny bit. So: tone off, fanfare and gold to Kaori Yamaguchi, the director of the Japanese Olympic Committee, for outstanding restraint in the face of male failure.

“We saw gender parity as a basic requirement for the Tokyo Games. It is unfortunate that the President of the Organizing Committee says so, ”Kaori Yamaguchi said of Yoshiro Mori. The chat of the Olympic chief organizer about his tight appreciation for contributions from female decision-makers had easily reached the gold standard on the Aua scale: The so-called Bernie level, defined over decades and curated by highly individual opinions of the former Formula 1 promoter Ecclestone .

And while half of the world was now wondering why someone in their ninth decade had to organize the Olympics (well), while the other half read up whether Mori really said that women had to set a time limit for speeches (yes), Kaori Yamaguchi had the size of characterizing Mori’s contribution as merely “unfortunate”. Learned is learned. Kaori Yamaguchi was Japan’s first female world champion in a sport that is defined by maximum impact with minimum effort: Judo.