A gaffe-prone Japanese minister apologized Wednesday for comments he made expressing his disappointment over swimming star Rikako Ikee's leukemia diagnosis, saying they were insensitive to the gold medal hopeful at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.Yoshitaka Sakurada, the minister in charge of the Olympics and Paralympics, retracted comments he made the previous day that were taken to mean he is placing more importance on Japan's success at the Summer Games, rather than her illness, which elicited a huge backlash from the public and politicians.Hours after the 18-year-old swimming sensation revealed …READ FULL ARTICLE