FIFA President
Sepp Blatter's leadership role in another major world sporting body has ended.
Blatter has decided against running for re-election as a member of the
International Olympic Committee.
Deutsche Welle, 3 Aug 2015
The head of
global football organization FIFA, which has been caught up in a wide-ranging
corruption scandal, had informed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) he
would not retain his position in that organization.
"He
does not deem it to be appropriate to stand for re-election for eight years
knowing that after seven months his term would come to an end," IOC
President Thomas Bach said on the final day of the committee's assembly inKuala Lumpur.
FIFA
President Sepp Blatter was one of several IOC members who had been due for
re-election. He had been a member of the IOC since 1999 and would have had to
retire next year anyway because he will be reaching his 80th birthday. He did
not attend the Kuala Lumpur meeting.
The IOC
gained two new members Monday: Nenad Lalovic of Serbia, head of wrestling's
world governing body, and Diagna Ndiaye, president of Senegal's national
Olympic committee. Fourteen others were re-elected for eight year terms and
Gunilla Lindberg of Sweden was re-elected to another four-year term on the
IOC's executive board
As for
FIFA, the body will elect a president at a special meeting set for February
after Blatter announced he would resign. He later said he had "offered up
his mandate," leading some to wonder if he was, in fact, considering
running for re-election.
se/sms (AP, AFP)
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