IOC executive board calls for vice-president's expulsion

The IOC's executive board decided Thursday to call on the members to expel vice-president Kim Un-Yong - jailed in South Korea after being found guilt on corruption charges.

The vote will be taken at the IOC session in Singapore in July.

It needs two-thirds of the 120-odd members to back the call to throw out the 75-year-old.

The executive board accepted the ethics commission's decision that Kim had "seriously tarnished the reputation of the Olympics movement."

Source: Xinhua