Blatter's term as IOC member ends

Outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter's 16-year term as an International Olympic Committee member ended on Monday when he did not seek re-election.

Blatter was among a group of IOC members up for re-election for another eight-year term. But IOC president Thomas Bach said Blatter informed him by letter on July 23 that he would not stand again.

"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.