Olympic organizers reach out to volunteers amid sexist remark turmoil

Tokyo Olympic organizers began emailing volunteers on Saturday to apologize and seek their continued cooperation in the wake of sexist remarks by the organizing committee president, former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.The emails, expressing the committee's "deepest apologies," emphasized the Olympics' vision of "diversity and harmony" after Mori complained on Wednesday that adding more female Japanese Olympic Committee directors would slow board meetings because women talk too long.The committee sought to attract a total of 80,000 volunteers for support tasks related to athletes and competit…READ FULL ARTICLE