Fifa President Sepp Blatter was relieved of his International Olympic Committee ex officio membership on yesterday, seven months before he will be replaced as the head of soccer’s governing body, IOC President Thomas Bach said yesterday.Blatter would ordinarily have been re-elected for another eight-year term as a procedural matter at the ongoing IOC Session in Malaysia, along with more than a dozen other members, but would be required to stand down when he left Fifa at the end of February.The Swiss has been an ex officio IOC member since 1999.
