Brazil's Olympic Committee suspended 😱😱

🇧🇷Brazil's Olympic Committee Suspended🚫 by IOC

The Brazilian official suspected of buying votes to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro has been provisionally suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), along with the country's national committee.

However, the IOC said in a statement Brazilian athletes would not be affected and Team Brazil would be able to take part at next year's Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Carlos Arthur Nuzman, 75, was suspended as an honorary member of the IOC and withdrawn from the co-ordination commission for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) itself was also handed a provisional suspension as "the COB and its president, Carlos Nuzman, were responsible for the candidature of Rio de Janeiro in 2009," the IOC said in a statement.

Rio defeated Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago that year to host the 2016 Games. Tokyo later won the right to host in 2020.

Nuzman is accused of trying to help buy the vote of Lamine Diack, the disgraced former chief of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and an ex-IOC member, with a $2 million payment via Brazilian companies.