At a special meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Paulo Wanderley, the previous deputy chairman, was elected to succeed Carlos Arthur Nuzman as president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee COB.The 67-year-old Wanderley, former head of the Judo Federation, will lead the COB on a full-time basis until the end of his term of office in 2020.
Carlos Arthur Nuzman had been relieved of his duties last Saturday and the following Wednesday officially announced his resignation from the post of COB chief.
The 75-year-old has been in Rio de Janeiro’s 5th place for the Olympic Games in 2016 due to the scandal of allegedly buying votes in the election of Rio de Janeiro.October in custody.He is also accused of money laundering and belonging to a criminal organisation.
Following Nuzman’s arrest, the International Olympic Committee reacted by suspending his honorary member and dismissing the long-serving official from the Coordination Commission for the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo.The COB has also been suspended, which means that it no longer receives aid and payments.
I am convinced that the COB will have the most modern statutes in the world at the end of the process,”said Marco Aurelio de Sa Ribeiro, President of Sailing, who is also to become a member of the commission.
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