{"id":30154,"date":"2017-03-07T11:55:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T05:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/fredericks-leaves-2024-olympic-bid-role-waives-vote\/"},"modified":"2017-03-07T11:55:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T05:55:02","slug":"fredericks-leaves-2024-olympic-bid-role-waives-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/fredericks-leaves-2024-olympic-bid-role-waives-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Fredericks Leaves 2024 Olympic Bid Role, Waives Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IOC member Frank Fredericks has stepped down from his role overseeing the 2024 Olympic bidding process after a $300,000 payment from a banned track official was revealed.   Fredericks says &quot;Paris and Los Angeles are presenting two fantastic candidatures and I do not wish to become a distraction.&quot;   The Namibian sprinter, a four-time Olympic silver medalist, says stepping aside as IOC evaluation chairman is &quot;in the best interests&quot; of the bidding process.   Fredericks would have led an April 23-25 visit to Los Angeles.   He also will skip the September hosting vote.   Last Friday, Fredericks said he contacted the IOC Ethics Commission ahead of French daily Le Monde reporting that a company linked to him was paid $299,300 on Oct. 2, 2009, the day Rio de Janeiro won 2016 Olympic hosting rights.   Fredericks denies wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IOC member Frank Fredericks has stepped down from his role overseeing the 2024 Olympic bidding process after a $300,000 payment from a banned track official was revealed. Fredericks says &quot;Paris and Los Angeles are presenting two fantastic candidatures and I do not wish to become a distraction.&quot; The Namibian sprinter, a four-time Olympic silver medalist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}