Bach had already said he would miss Wednesday’s opening ceremony in Rio to attend a funeral.
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The last time an International Olympic Committee president failed to attend a Paralympics was in 2010, when Jacques Rogge missed all of the Winter Games in Vancouver.
“At this present time there are no plans for the president to travel to Brazil”, it added.
The charges include supplying tickets for the objective of touting, false advertising, fraud, money laundering and tax evasion.
Aloysio Falcão, a police investigator, said that…
The Games run from September 7-18.
It is not clear if Mr Bach replied or took any action relating to Mr Hickey’s request.
Thomas Bach at the Olympics closing ceremony.
All but one of the other suspects are businessmen with Pro10 and THG Sports who are not in Brazil, including Ipswich Town owner Marcus Evans, who owns THG Sports’ parent company who said the allegations are “totally without foundation”. The IOC said that Bach would attend the official state mourning ceremony on Wednesday for Walter Scheel, the former West Germany president.
And addressing the reports in Globo and other local media that Brazilian authorities want to talk to Bach about Hickey, the IOC said: “The IOC can not comment on a newspaper story nor on the ongoing legal procedure against Mr Hickey for whom the presumption of innocence prevails”. “For the International Olympic Committee it goes without saying that it will co-operate on this matter”.
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He was questioned at a police station in northern Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday but declined to answer additional questions.
