Nothing Winter Olympics a Sapporo In the 2030. The city of the north of Japan which has already hosted the Games long ago 1972, has announced that he will definitively renounce his candidacy. The reason? The corruption scandal which is overwhelming the organization of the Summer Olympics Tokyoplayed in 2021.
The Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a number of companies: the attention is focused on the former member of the board of the Olympic organizing committee, Haruyuki Takahashi. He is a former employee of Dentsuthe largest advertising agency in Japan, which it was at the time the exclusive marketing agency for the Tokyo Games. According to the indictment, Takahashi agreed bribes to help different companies to be select such as Olympic sponsors or marketing agents.
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The scandal has grown more and more in shadow Sapporo’s candidacy for the 2030 Winter Games, even though the site of the ’72 Winter Games had once been one of the favourites to host the event again. Already in April the first doubts and the possibility of postponing the candidacy to 2034. Now several Japanese media have reported that the mayor of Sapporo, Katsuhiro Akimotowill inform you of the decision renounce the president of the Japanese Olympic Committee at the nomination, Yasuhiro Yamashita, next week. Sapporo is now considering a bid for 2034 or later.
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