Reuters Murofushi, a former Japanese Olympian, advocates for quick decision-making during pandemic-affected Games. Koji Murofushi, a former Olympic gold medalist who is now the head of the Japan Sports Agency, said on Friday that with the Games only a week away, Olympic organizers needed flexibility and quick decision-making in responding to the development of COVID-19 infections. Murofushi, who won a gold medal in the hammer throw at the 2004 Athens Olympics and a bronze medal in 2012, was the sports director for the Tokyo Games, which were postponed by a year owing to the pandemic, until September, when he was made chief of the sports agency, a government department. “It’s possible that even after the Olympics begin, we’ll need to adopt precautions to avoid the spread of illnesses,” Murofushi, 46, told Reuters in an interview at his Tokyo office./n
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