Nagano Games ski jump hero named Japan's Beijing Olympic general manager

Olympic ski jumping gold medalist Masahiko Harada was appointed general manager of Japan's 2022 Beijing Olympic team on Thursday by the Japanese Olympic Committee's board of trustees.Meeting for an extraordinary session, the trustees named the 53-year-old Harada, winner of team gold at the 1998 Nagano Olympics in Japan, general manager and Hidehito Ito, the 60-year-old chairman of the Japan Skate Federation's figure skating committee, chef de mission.Harada became a JOC director in June and has been a director at the Ski Association of Japan since 2015. Ito was Japan's general manager at bo…READ FULL ARTICLE