{"id":36237,"date":"2019-03-19T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36237"},"modified":"2019-03-19T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:22:10","slug":"tokyo-2020-chair-to-quit-amid-corruption-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36237","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo 2020 chair to quit amid corruption allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>With less than 500 days until the Tokyo Olympics gets underway, Tsunekazu Takeda &#8212; president of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) &#8212; has announced he will step down from his position in June amid allegations of corruption over Tokyo&#8217;s successful bid to host the 2020 Games.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Takeda told reporters at a press conference Tuesday in Tokyo that he would also resign from his position as member of the International Olympic Committee. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The 71-year-old, ex-president of the Tokyo 2020 bidding committee, was <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/11\/sport\/tokyo-2020-olympics-corruption-tsunekazu-takeda-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">placed under formal investigation<\/a> last December by French prosecutors over corruption allegations relating to the 2020 bidding process.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)With less than 500 days until the Tokyo Olympics gets underway, Tsunekazu Takeda &#8212; president of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) &#8212; has announced he will step down from his position in June amid allegations of corruption over Tokyo&#8217;s successful bid to host the 2020 Games.Takeda told reporters at a press conference Tuesday in Tokyo&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}