Outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s 16-year term as an International Olympic Committee member ended on Monday when he didn’t seek re-election. Blatter was among a group of IOC members up for re-election for another eight-year term. But IOC president Thomas Bach said Blatter informed him by letter on July 23 that he wouldn’t stand again. “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,” Bach said on the final day of the IOC’s general assembly in Kuala lumpur.
Blatter, beset by a corruption scandal at FIFA and whose presidential term will end following a February 26 election, didn’t attend the IOC meetings in Kuala lumpur.
Blatter, an IOC member since 1999, would have had to retire from his IOC term next year anyway because he turns 80 in March. The IOC confirmed that Blatter’s membership ended on Monday.