GENEVA (AP) — IOC member Frank Fredericks has stepped down from his role overseeing the 2024 Olympic bidding process after a $300,000 payment from a banned track official was revealed.
“Paris and Los Angeles are presenting two fantastic candidatures, and I do not wish to become a distraction,” the four-time Olympic silver medalist from Namibia said Tuesday in a statement.
Stepping aside as IOC evaluation chairman was “in the best interests” of the bidding process, the former sprinter said.
Fredericks, who won his Olympic medals in the 1990s, would have led an April 23-25 visit to Los Angeles.