RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Senior International Olympic Committee member Richard Pound on Friday urged the body to act decisively in the case of Carlos Nuzman, the IOC member who was held for police questioning this week in a vote-buying scheme to land last year’s Rio Olympics.
Nuzman also headed the organizing committee for Rio.
The graft inquiry could overshadow the IOC meetings next week in Lima, Peru, where it will name Paris host of the 2024 Summer Olympics and Los Angeles as the 2028 venue.
Pound of Canada, the longest severing IOC member, called the scandal surrounding Nuzman “a mess” and suggested the Brazilian should be asked to give up his membership.
“We need some more teeth in this because we are taking hit after hit in the eyes of the world and we’re not seen to be doing anything,” Pound told The Associated Press. “In fact, we probably aren’t doing much other than waiting to see if somebody else tells us that one of our member is offside – or several members are offside.”