Once again, the Olympic motto of faster, higher, stronger has been swapped out by money-grubbing international leaders for something much more to their liking.
Gimme, gimme, gimme.
Tsunekazu Takeda, the president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, has announced he will resign when his term ends in June amid a vote-buying scandal that French investigators believe helped Tokyo win next year’s Summer Olympic Games.
Takeda has acknowledged that he signed off on about $2 million in payments to a Singapore consulting company that is linked to Papa Massata Diack, the son of a powerful ex-International Olympic Committee member from Senegal who wielded strong influence over IOC voters in Africa.