Posted on 05/24/2005 11:25:01 AM PDT by JZelle
LONDON (AP) -- IOC president Jacques Rogge welcomed the resignation of the committee's jailed vice president and suggested a suspended Bulgarian member should do the same thing.
Rogge made his first public comments Tuesday on the resignation of Kim Un-yong, who is serving a two-year prison term in South Korea on corruption charges.
Kim, whose resignation was accepted Friday, stepped down rather than face an expulsion vote at the International Olympic Committee session in Singapore in July.
"It's always nice not to have to vote on the exclusion of a colleague," Rogge said. "I still believe that the session would have taken the right decision had we had to vote. But if we don't have to vote and if he has resigned, which is the proper thing to do, of course everyone is pleased."
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