(ATR) C.K. Wu, IOC member in Chinese Taipei resigns the seat he’s held since 1988.
A brief statement from the IOC expresses "great respect" to accept the resignation of Wu due to "medical advice".
Wu, 73, stepped down seven years before facing mandatory retirement from the IOC. He was the seventh most senior member of the IOC, which now numbers 100.
Wu was facing an inquiry by the IOC Ethics Commission linked to his presidency ofinternational boxing federation AIBA.
In 2006 Wu was elected as a reform candidate to lead AIBA. He defeated the entrenched incumbent Anwar Chowdry who had been under fire for mismanaging the federation, facing possible exclusion from the Olympics, at that time.
But 10 years later Wu found himself at the center of a crisis for AIBA once again. Scandal over the referee and judges at the 2016 Olympics in Rio erupted followed by revelations that the finances of AIBA were amok. The federation still faces millions in debt incurred by Wu during his AIBA presidency and has been under IOC suspension since 2019. The IOC has stripped AIBA of its role organizing the boxing tournament in Tokyo, naming a task force to handle the work.
Wu was replaced as AIBA president on an interim basis in 2017 and formally resigned from the federation in 2018.
Since then he has retained his seat on the IOC, despite the upheaval in AIBA. An IOC Ethics Commission file was open on Wu at the time of his resignation from the IOC. The contents of the file and any allegations have not been revealed as is the practice of the Ethics Commission, until a finding is reached. Wu’s resignation from the IOC should close the file on a permanent basis.
Wu has not responded to a request for comment.
Reported by Ed Hula.
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