Giovanni Malagò on Monday confirmed
he was stepping down as president of the Italian Olympic
Committee (CONI), which oversees all Italian sport, after
serving a maximum three terms in the job.
Rome-born Malagò, 66, was first elected CONI chief in 2013.
He said he now had to "bow to the law" and not try to serve an
extra term to oversee next year's Winter Olympics in Milan and
Cortina.
"The numbers are ok, we have brought two Olympics, the sporting
results have been extraordinary and we have international
prestige, but we have arrived today and I acknowledge that it is
not right to have an extra mandate to complete that journey that
began when Italy was in a bad state and after having rebuilt our
credibility," Malagò told the CONI National Council, regarding
his inability to run again.
"The answer for which an exception could not be made has always
been: "there is a law". And I bow to the law, but it must always
remain as such. Instead, in recent years it has changed twice".
Malagò is rumoured to be set for an executive position at AS
Roma.
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