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Japanese Olympic Comm. President Yagi Dies
Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) President Yushiro Yagi died Sunday evening after collapsing in a sauna at an Osaka hotel, hotel officials said Monday. He was 72.
Yagi, who checked in at the ANA Hotel Osaka in the city's Kita Ward at around 5:40 p.m. Sunday, entered the sauna about one hour later. Hotel officials found Yagi lying in the sauna at around 8:10 p.m. and he was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:57 p.m.
The exact cause of his death remains unknown, but his heart had stopped when he arrived at the hospital, the officials said.
The JOC head was scheduled to attend a meeting Monday on the disbanding of the Osaka bid committee for the 2008 Olympics, following an International Olympic Committee decision in July to hold the games in Beijing.
Yagi was hospitalized in Osaka in May following a reception held prior to the opening of the East Asian Games.
He was elected to a second two-year term as JOC president in March after an amendment was made to the organization's rules on age limit. He became a JOC executive in April 1993 and secretary general of the committee in April 1995.
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