Federation Internationale de Football Association President Sepp Blatter steps down from IOC

Sepp Blatter has decided not to stand for re-election with the global Olympic Committee.

Blatter was at among a grouping of IOC people ready for re-election for a different eight-year time period the IOC director Thomas Bach said the Swiss had educated him by written request on 23 July that she would not ever stand up again.

Blatter, whose organisation is embroiled in a corruption scandal, was among a group of eight IOC members who should have sought re-election today at a meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

The 79-year-old Swiss was re-elected for a fifth term as Fifa president in Zurich on May 29 but announced he would lay down his mandate just four days later in the wake of the worst crisis in the football authority’s history.

Blatter, 79, is reportedly under investigation for bribery and racketeering by several U.S. federal agencies and accused of corruption after being linked to officials taking bribes in efforts to secure lucrative broadcast rights and hosting votes for worldwide tournaments.

Bach thanked Blatter and other members leaving the IOC for their “great contribution” to the Olympic movement.

Blatter, an IOC member since 1999, would have had to retire from his IOC term next year anyway because he turns 80 in March. He was enabled to stay on after turning 70 under IOC rules which permit certain presidents of senior global federations to remain in membership until they reach 80.

Two other IOC members were not re-elected due to age restrictions – the former World Archery president Jim Easton and Colombia’s Andrés Botero.

The IOC received two new members – Nenad Lalovic of Serbia, the head of wrestling’s world governing body, and Diagna Ndiaye, the president of the national Olympic committee in Senegal.