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IOC member Frank Fredericks has stepped down from his role overseeing the 2024 Olympic bidding process after a US$300 adidas nmd trainers uk ,000 payment from a banned track official was revealed.


“Paris and Los Angeles are presenting two fantastic candidatures and I do not wish to become a distraction,� the four-time Olympic silver medalist from Namibia said yesterday in a statement.


Stepping aside as IOC evaluation chairman was “in the best interests� of the bidding process, the ex-sprinter said.


Fredericks, who won his Olympic medals in the 1990s, would have led an April 23-25 visit to Los Angeles. Paris will be evaluated by an IOC team on May 14-16.


“(I)t is essential that the important work my colleagues are doing is seen as being carried out in a truthful and fair manner,� Fredericks said.


Fredericks also will not take part in July meetings in Lausanne adidas nmd trainers sale , Switzerland, that are a key stage in the voting contest. IOC members will hear from city campaign leaders and about the evaluation visits.


Fredericks has denied wrongdoing after his integrity — and the 2016 Olympic hosting vote — was questioned by French daily Le Monde last Friday.


Fredericks previously said he contacted the IOC Ethics Commission ahead of Le Monde revealing that a company linked to him was paid US$299,300 on October 2, 2009, the day Rio de Janeiro won 2016 Olympic hosting rights.


The money was transferred by Papa Massata Diack, the son of Lamine Diack yeezy boost 650 uk , a disgraced former IAAF president and former long-time IOC member.


The elder Diack is in France where state prosecutors are investigating alleged corruption in the IAAF. His evasive son, who has been banned for life by the IAAF, is thought to be in his native Senegal.


Le Monde reported that Papa Massata Diack’s marketing company received US$1.5 million from a Brazilian businessman days before Rio’s victory in a four-city contest. Fredericks, a senior IAAF official, has said he had a marketing contract with Papa Massata Diack’s agency, Pamodzi Sports Consulting yeezy boost 550 uk , from 2007-11.


“I reiterate that I was never involved with any vote manipulation or for that matter any other inappropriate or illegal practice,� said Fredericks, who joined the IOC in 2004 as an athlete representative and was a member of the IOC executive board at the time of the Rio vote.

Nazares council counts with three famous beaches: Beach of Nazareth, Beach of the North and New Beach.

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The garden of the train station of Vale dos Frades that won some trophies for the most beautiful garden and better treaty of all of the stations, is another of the great attractions of the freguesia. The beauty of the landscape is still exalted through the panels of allusive tiles to Nazares beach, Alcobaca and Vale dos Frades.

Vale dos Frades is a town where a small minority follows the tradition of the agriculture.

Nazares council keeps good moments of amusement and friendship between its population and their visitors. Nazare is still the perfect place to find a series of bars that promise to make your visit more pleasant and cheerful.

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CHICAGO, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- A former senior official at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has been accused of buying limited-edition luxury fountain pens with money earmarked for training workers.


Alphons Iacobelli, who was in charge of labor relations, bought in 2013 two Montblanc pens yeezy boost 350 oxford tan uk , which cost 35,700 U.S. dollars each, with budget for a United Auto Workers (UAW) training center, the Detroit News reported on Thursday.


The price for such a pen is higher than the median household income in Detroit.


The pen features gold fittings, a blue sapphire embedded in the clip, a mother-of-pearl cap ringed by three diamonds. The luxury pen with only 50 available worldwide was said to honor President Abraham Lincoln.


The U.S. federal agents believe Alphons Iacobelli is at the center of a scandal involving individuals at the automaker and the UAW?siphoning millions from an employee training fund.