Fifa president Sepp Blatter opts against standing for re-election to IOC

Published on: 03 August 2015
Fifa president Sepp Blatter opts against standing for re-election to IOC
Sepp Blatter

The departing Fifa president Sepp Blatter’s 16 years as an International Olympic Committee member ended on Monday after he opted against seeking re-election.

Blatter was among a group of IOC members up for re-election for another eight-year term but the IOC president Thomas Bach said the Swiss had informed him by letter on 23 July that he would not stand again.

Speaking on the final day of the IOC’s general assembly in Kuala Lumpur, Bach said: “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.”

Blatter, who is beset by a corruption scandal at Fifa and whose presidential term will end following an election in February, was not in attendance.

Blatter, an IOC member since 1999, would have had to retire from his IOC term next year because of age restrictions – the Swiss turns 80 in March.

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