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  • IOC President Welcomes Kim Resignation

    05/24/2005 11:25:01 AM PDT · by JZelle · 168+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 5-24-05 | STEPHEN WILSON
    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...