The International Olympic Committee has announced that it has suspended the Russian Olympic Committee with immediate effect due to a “violation” of the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee.
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The 83-year-old Yoshiro Mori, a former Japanese prime minister and head of the Tokyo committee organising the postponed Summer Games this year, had told a newspaper earlier that he may step down if calls for his resignation continue.
Jimmy Patronis sent a letter to Thomas Bach, the head of the IOC, “to encourage you to consider relocating the 2021 Olympics from Tokyo, Japan to the United States of America, and more specifically to Florida”
Apart from Oladapo, others re-elected in Africa were Monqid El Hajji (Morocco), Ha Shun Hao Thyn Voon (Maurititius), Balla Lo (Senegal), and Thomas Kiggundu (Uganda).