Japan's gentleman equestrian: A spectacular fall from grace for Tsunekazu Takeda, president of Japan’s Olympic committee for nearly two decades, who is now at the heart of an Olympics corruption probe by danielleussink Ami Miyazaki saitomri Tokyo2020
TOKYO - Surrounded by reporters in March, Tsunekazu Takeda, teary-eyed and blinking as cameras flashed around him, explained his decision to step down as Japan’s Olympics chief.
Takeda’s resignation, which takes effect in June, comes three years after allegations first surfaced that Tokyo’s Olympics bidding committee had paid more than $2 million to win the 2020 Olympics. A panel appointed by the Japanese Olympic Committee in 2016 cleared the bidding committee, which Takeda led, of bribery allegations. The International Olympic Committee has also closed its own ethics case on the matter.
He married in 1974. His former mother-in-law, Iku Matsumi, 99, and ex-wife, Masako Takeda, said that Matsumi helped Takeda buy a horse, worth the equivalent of $100,000 at the time, for the 1976 Olympics. The club never attracted enough members to pay for the expensive fittings, Takeda’s former business associates said. After seven years, Shimoren declared bankruptcy and later sold the club, one of the former board members said.“The bubble economy went bust and you couldn’t sell anything,” he said.
Contacted by phone in Singapore, where he now owns a bakery, Tan declined to discuss his role in the Tokyo bid. Both father and son were indicted in France on corruption charges related to covering up Russian athletes’ positive drug tests, including bribe-taking and money laundering, in May.
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