(ATR) IOC member James Easton will miss today’s meeting of the U.S. Olympic Committee Board of Directors taking place in Atlanta.
Easton, 75, who suffered a stroke last year, has failed to recover enough to travel on Olympic business.
His executive assistant tells Around the Rings that Easton has no plans to travel to SportAccord in London or the May technical briefing for IOC members I n Lausanne on the 2018 Winter Olympic bids.
Growing increasingly unlikely would be his attendance at the IOC Session in Durban this July.
Easton is a member of the IOC Nominations Commission, which has more than a half-dozen vacancies to fill at the Durban session. It is not known whether he is participating in the nominations process.
Easton came to the IOC in 1994 while president of FITA, the international federation for archery. He stepped down as FITA president in 2005. His family-owned company is known for archery products as well as gear for baseball and softball.
The U.S. has two other IOC members, Anita de Frantz, elected in 1986, and Angela Ruggiero, a member of the IOC Athletes Commission until 2018.
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