Naomi Osaka lauds Hashimoto's appointment as Tokyo Games organizing chief

Women's tennis star Naomi Osaka on Thursday welcomed the appointment of former Olympic minister Seiko Hashimoto as the new head of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee in place of Yoshiro Mori, who resigned last week amid a storm of criticism over his sexist comments."I think for me, what it means is that there's a lot of things that I think people used to accept, the things that used to be said, but you're seeing the newer generation not tolerating a lot of things," the 23-year-old Osaka said after winning her Australian Open semifinal.Hashimoto appeared in seven Olympics between 1984 a…READ FULL ARTICLE