The author | Wang Xiluo
Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura bites the gold medal Source: Nagoya City Government
On the 5th, the "biting of the gold medal" by Takayuki Kawamura, the mayor of Nagoya, Japan, continued to ferment. The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee said on the same day that the gold medals that had been bitten could not be replaced for free.
According to the Japanese Jiji News Agency reported on the 5th, Japanese player Yoshitomo Goto, who won the softball championship at the Tokyo Olympic Games, visited the Nagoya City Government in his hometown on the 4th. When Goto put on the Olympic gold medal for Mayor Takayuki Kawamura, Kawamura suddenly pulled down his mask and bit the gold medal. Kawamura's behavior also caused controversy, and as of noon local time on the 5th, Nagoya City had received at least 3137 complaints. Toyota, to which Goto belongs, also said that Takayuki Kawamura's behavior was "absolutely intolerable."
At the press conference of the Olympic Organizing Committee on the 5th, a reporter asked the spokesman of the Olympic Organizing Committee, Masatsugu Takatani, whether he could replace a new gold medal for Goto, and Takatani said that he could not answer this question. Later in the day, the Tokyo Organising Committee said that only medals with manufacturing defects could be replaced for free, and the organizing committee was not responsible for the replacement of medals due to injuries caused by other reasons, including marks caused by biting with teeth.
【Original title】Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee responded to the Japanese mayor biting the gold medal: the bitten can not be replaced for free
The source | Overseas network
Source: Overseas Network