The Japanese Olympic Committee plans to intensify talks from mid-November on how to prevent a repeat of the growing corruption scandal related to last year’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
JOC President Yasuhiro Yamashita revealed the plan Thursday at a meeting in Sapporo, the northern Japanese city that is bidding to host the 2030 Winter Olympics.
A commission made up of sports governing bodies, lawyers, accountants and municipal government officials will be formed to work on the issue.
“We want to speed up the process,” said Yamashita, the men’s judo openweight gold medalist at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. “We will try to come up with a set of measures by next February at the latest.”
Last week, Haruyuki Takahashi, 78, a member of the now-defunct Tokyo Olympics organizing committee that has been at the center of the corruption scandal, faced further charges of alleged bribery from a major advertising agency and a company that sold officially licensed pet toys. .
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