| 1 | Sepp Blatter is leaving the International Olympic Committee after 16 years. |
| 2 | FIFA president Sepp Blatter's term as an International Olympic Committee member ended Monday when he did not seek re-election. |
| 3 | Blatter was among a group of IOC members up for re-election for another eight-year term. |
| 4 | But IOC President Thomas Bach said Blatter informed him by letter on July 23 that he would not stand again. |
| 5 | Blatter, beset by a corruption scandal at FIFA, is due to be replaced as FIFA president in an election on Feb. 26. |
| 6 | "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. |
| 7 | Blatter, an IOC member since 1999, would have had to retire from his IOC term next year anyway because he turns 80 in March. |
| 8 | The IOC confirmed that Blatter's membership ended on Monday. |
| 9 | Elsewhere, 14 other IOC members were re-elected for eight-year terms, while Gunilla Lindberg of Sweden was re-elected to another four-year term on the IOC's executive board. |
| 10 | Two new members were elected Monday to the IOC: Nenad Lalovic of Serbia, head of wrestling's world governing body, and Diagna Ndiaye, president of Senegal's national Olympic committee. |