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Sherman A1

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Mon Mar 28, 2022, 06:58 AM Mar 2022

Top official quits Finnish Olympic Committee after late-night texts

YLE NEWS
28.3. 04:34

Mika Lehtimäki on Monday announced his resignation as director of the Finnish Olympic Committee's high-level sports unit.

Yle Sport reported that Lehtimäki received an official warning last autumn related to inappropriate behaviour against women in the workplace, which he accepted and said would lead to a change in his conduct.

"My actions have caused unreasonable harm to Finnish elite sports and the Olympic Committee. I have always thought and said that sport is bigger than any one individual and now it is time for me to live up to those words," Lehtimäki told the press conference.

"For this reason, and on my own initiative, it has been mutually agreed that I will leave my role with immediate effect," he said.

https://yle.fi/news/3-12378927

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