By David Owen at the Beaulieu conference centre in Lausanne
July 3 – Neither Sepp Blatter, FIFA president, nor Issa Hayatou, the African football leader who is also an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, are to attend this week’s extraordinary Session of the body behind the Olympic Games in Lausanne.
The names of both football men were on a list of 14 “excused” members circulated in this Swiss city this morning by the IOC.
Three of the 14, though neither Blatter or Hayatou, will attend some of the proceedings.
Their absence means that the two men will miss their opportunity to vote in the poll to determine which city will host the 2018 Youth Olympic Games.
The UK’s Glasgow is vying for this honour against the South American cities of Medellín and Buenos Aires.
The Colombian candidate is generally seen as favourite, though not overwhelmingly so.
Britain’s Princess Royal, one of three British IOC members, was also on the list of those “excused”.
She would not have been able to cast a vote in the contest while Glasgow remained in the running even if she had made the trip to Switzerland.
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