Contributing to society through sports to secure reinforcement costs JOC Chairman Yamashita November 26, 19:06
In order to secure the increased costs for players who have increased for the Tokyo Olympics after the Games, Chairman Yasuhiro Yamashita of the JOC = Japan Olympic Committee will play an important role in contributing to society through sports. Appealed sex.
Last year, JOC regularly held meetings where the top of the participating sporting organizations gathered to prevent recurrence in response to a series of scandals such as power harassment and diversion of subsidies in the sports world.
This year's meeting was held in Tokyo on the 26th, and President Yamashita has paid a national grant to the JOC of about 6.3 billion yen, which will be allocated to the player's strengthening expenses. While it has nearly doubled, it is clear that it will be reduced next year.
On top of that, Chairman Yamashita stressed the importance of social contribution through sports, as recovery of trust in the sports world is indispensable in order to secure subsidies after the Tokyo Games.
As one of them, we proposed that athletes who played an active part after the Olympics closed to visit disaster-affected areas in various places, and called on the competition organizations to cooperate.
Mr. Yamashita said, “In 2020, Japanese players will do their best, but we don't want to end there. We want to connect it to the Beijing Olympics in the winter of 2022. The money spent on the players will be returned to society, It ’s good to see it. ”