Sports World News of Thursday, 18 August 2016Source: aljazeeraBrazil nabs Olympic official for 'illegal' ticket salesPatrick Hickey, president of the Olympic Council of Ireland, steps down "temporarily". A senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) official has stepped down temporarily following his arrest over alleged involvement in illegal Olympic ticket sales at the Rio Games. Patrick Hickey has been replaced by William O'Brien as president of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), the OCI said on Wednesday just hour after Hickey's arrest. Aside from being a president of his country's Olympic committee, Hickey has been an executive board member of the IOC since 2012. Two people were arrested earlier in August after allegations that Olympic tickets earmarked for Ireland's Olympic Council were sold on the black market in Rio de Janeiro.

Source: CameroonWeb August 18, 2016 11:13 UTC