The 66-year-old Watanabe, the head of the International Gymnastics Federation, was running as the first-ever Japanese candidate with outlandish ideas including hosting the Summer Olympics on five ...

BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidential candidate Morinari Watanabe has unveiled bold ideas aimed at transforming the Olympic Movement. Watanabe's most ...

Morinari Watanabe said Monday that his bid to be president of the International Olympic Committee was meaningful, despite it being unsuccessful. "There was a world that I was able to see because I ...

Morinari Watanabe, the Japanese head of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), is vying to be selected as the first president of the International Olympic Committee from Asia in the ...

Moderated by AIPS President Gianni Merlo, the interview allowed Watanabe to elaborate on his radical proposal for the Olympics. "The idea of holding them in five cities simultaneously, with ten ...

Japan’s Watanabe Morinari has centered his bid to become the first International Olympic Committee president from Asia on an unprecedented idea: staging the summer games on five continents ...

naturally, I feel the greatest pressure ever at this event in my life,” Watanabe, who is also an International Olympic Committee member, told Reuters via email. “We want to open the door to ...