森喜朗「最終聖火ランナーは大坂なおみより『純日本人』の松井秀喜の方がふさわしい」

7月23日に開催された東京オリンピック開会式。聖火リレーの最終走者として聖火台に火をともしたのは大坂なおみだった。
　
　だが、実は、「東京2020組織委員会」森喜朗元会長の「神の声」によって、当初は松井秀喜が最終走者に内定していたという。8月4日（日本時間）、アメリカのニュースサイト「デイリー・ビースト」が報じた。

　2014年、電通は組織委員会から「マーケティング専任代理店」として指名され、事実上、東京五輪を仕切ることが決まった。その電通の社員が、デイリー・ビーストの記者に匿名で明かしたという。

　同記事によると、森元会長は松井を「純粋な日本人であり、日米野球のヒーローで、“闘志” を具現化した存在」として最終走者に指名。記事では、「事実上、神の声だった」と電通社員が明かしている。

　松井といえば、MLBで175本塁打を放ち、日米通算507本塁打を打った名選手。「ゴジラ」のあだ名で、アメリカでは誰もが知る有名人だ。森元会長は「ゴジラが炎を吐き、松井が “大釜” に火をつけるのは面白いだろう」と話したという。

だが、森元会長は2月、「女性がたくさん入っている理事会は時間がかかる」などと発言し、批判をあびて辞任。このため、松井最終走者案は潰えた。

　森元会長が松井にこだわったのは理由がある。同じ石川県根上町（現在の能美市）出身で、小学校も同じ。松井の後援会会長を務め、2001年には「日本プロスポーツ大賞・内閣総理大臣賞」を授与してもいる。

　開会式のエグゼクティブ・プロデューサーを務めた日置貴之氏は、開会式後の記者会見で、大坂なおみを選んだ理由について「日本を代表するアスリートで、最もふさわしい最終走者だと思った。かなり慎重に時間を使いながら人選してきた」と述べている。

　だが、デイリー・ビーストの報道が正しければ、実際は、単に森元会長の辞任によって入れ替わっただけということになる。

　開会式に「市川海老蔵を入れて」とゴリ押ししたことが『週刊文春』で報じられている森元会長。“お友達” を優遇する態度は、オリンピックを私物化していると言われても仕方ないだろう。

SmartFLASH 2021.08.05 06:00
https://smart-flash.jp/sports/152980

Olympic Boss Wanted Flame Lit by ‘Pure Japanese’ Ex-Yankee Player, Not Osaka
https://www.thedailybeast.com/olympic-boss-yoshiro-mori-wanted-flame-lit-by-pure-ex-yankee-hideki-matsui-not-naomi-osaka?ref=scroll

ソース、無しw

開会式？なにそれジャップの集会？

デイリービーストってなんだよ

The ex-chairman allegedly told staff that baseball player Hideki Matsui—nicknamed “Godzilla”—would be the right fit because he’s a “pure Japanese man” with a “fighting spirit.”

OKYO—The 2020 Olympics delighted the world when, at the opening ceremony on July 23, biracial tennis superstar Naomi Osaka—with a rose-gold torch in her hand—lit the Olympic cauldron.

But that wasn’t the original plan. According to Olympic insiders who spoke to The Daily Beast, disgraced former Tokyo Organizing Committee chair Yoshiro Mori was pushing to have someone else do the honors.

“Mori wanted ‘Godzilla’ to light the Olympic flame at the end, not Naomi Osaka, ” an employee for the committee, who spoke on conditions of anonymity due to a punitive non-disclosure agreement, told The Daily Beast.

“Godzilla” is the nickname for Hideki Matsui, a legendary Japanese baseball outfielder who played for the Yomiuri Giants and the New York Yankees, with a total of 507 home runs in his two-decade career. The nickname is an homage to his batting power. Matsui is a good sport about his nickname, even making a guest appearance in the film “Godzilla Versus Mechagodzilla.”

Many of the top dogs involved in the Tokyo Olympics, including Governor Yuriko Koike, had special requests for the event, and Mori was among them. The Olympics employee said that Mori was insistent on Matsui lighting the “sacred fire.” Worth noting, too, is that Mori has served as the honorary chairman of Matsui’s fan club in Ishikawa Prefecture, where the baseball player was born.

According to the employee, Mori had told the staff: “[Matsui] is a pure Japanese man and a baseball champion in the U.S. and Japan—the embodiment of fighting spirit.”

Mori allegedly also just thought Matsui’s nickname was funny, given the occasion. “Funny in the sense that Godzilla breathes flames, and Matsui would be lighting the cauldron,” the staffer said.

There were other suggestions for the final person in the torch relay, but Mori was allegedly not open to any of them. An employee with Dentsu, a PR firm exclusively partnered with the Games, who worked on the opening ceremony told The Daily Beast that “Mori wanted Matsui. If he wanted something changed or something done, then it was done. Mori was practically the voice of God.”

Speaking of gods, even after Matsui was decided upon, there was grave concern that the chair would make an inappropriate remark about it. When Mori was Japan’s prime minister in 2000, he had said in a speech, “Japan is a nation of the gods, with the emperor in the center,” a controversial statement that echoed militarist sentiments of imperial Japan.

The actual emperor of Japan, despite his concerns that the games would directly or indirectly spread the coronavirus, was also at the opening. He gave an unenthusiastic 14-second speech, in which he changed the word “celebrate” to “commemorate.”

Mori, too, was there for the opening, but not as chairman. He had been forced to resign on February 12, after making sexist remarks. With him gone, the committee decided that Osaka was perfect.

Osaka wasn't formally approached until March, but thankfully she took the job. She was a spark of light in an opening ceremony that was depressing as hell.

The Daily Beast reached out to the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee and Yoshihiro Mori for comment, but have not received a reply. The Tokyo Olympics have been beset by scandal since Japan won the bid in 2013, and the infighting and squabbles surrounding the opening ceremony have been endless.

In the process, important messages that many in Japan hoped to see expressed were snuffed out.

The International Olympic Committee wasn’t interested in anything promoting the restoration of Fukushima, a northern prefecture of Japan devastated by natural disasters and a nuclear meltdown. An earlier plan to have a moment of silence for the victims of the disaster was nixed by the IOC, which had also canceled plans to have a moment of silence for Hiroshima on August 6.

朴は純日本人じゃないやろ

The reconstruction and revival of the area was the original pretext for applying to host the Olympics in the first place. “The IOC didn’t give a fart about Fukushima,” the Tokyo Organizing Committee source added. So much for the “Restoration Olympics.”

The IOC did, however, request John Lennon’s “Imagine” be put in the show. If we imagine hard enough, we could also maybe believe that the president of the IOC, Thomas Bach, really cares more about the safety of the Japanese people than he does about the IOC collecting $1 billion in TV broadcasting rights fees.

And thanks to the decision to have Naomi Osaka take part in the ceremony, we can almost imagine that the scandal-plagued Tokyo Olympics were always actually about “diversity and unity.” Imagine that.

流石にこれはヤバいやろ

女は話が長い発言どころじゃない問題やと思うんやが

森元の方がまともな開会式できてたやん

大坂なおみも松井秀喜もなあ

松井って在日疑惑山ほどあるやん？

長嶋茂雄に1人で登らせるの見たかったわ

大坂が世界的にベストな選択だわ
開会式で唯一良かった部分

そしてやっぱり国民栄誉賞も森元のゴリ押しだったんやなって

松井は知名度無さすぎる
大坂もポリコレ最強ってだけで猿画像貼るようなやつだし相応しくない
子供がよかった

アメリカでは誰もが知るは盛ったよね