IOC President May Step Down After 2012
In the lead up to the elections in October, Jacques Rogge has claimed that said he may be ready to stand down as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after the 2012 London Olympics.
If he were re-elected, he said that it would be proper to consider stepping down when his term finished in 2013.
‘I think when you have led an organisation, you become a past or honorary president. I think at the end of my term it will be time for me to resign from the IOC and for the IOC to decide what to do with me. I think the first quality of a past president is to shut up’, Rogge said, according to media reports.
The president has been head of the IOC since 2001 and is expected to be re-elected for another four-year term at the IOC Congress in Copenhagen in October.
If he continues to act as president, Rogge will see to the efforts of London 2012s legacy plan, which he is confident will succeed post Olympic Games.
