All the way back to Brazil. On Wednesday March 6, a federal court overturned the corruption convictions of Carlos Nuzman (photo above), the former president of the national Olympic committee and the organizing committee for the Rio 2016 Games, and Sergio Cabral, the Former governor of Rio de Janeiro. The two men were convicted in 2021 for trying to buy the votes of IOC members for the attribution of the Summer Games in 2016. Carlos Nuzman received a sentence of more than 30 years in prison. Sergio Cabral, for his part, was sentenced to more than 10 years of imprisonment. In its verdict, the federal court explained that the judge in charge of the two sentences did not have the legal competence to rule on the case. But the case is not yet closed. The judges declared on Wednesday March 6 that they wanted to hear the parties concerned before deciding to which new jurisdiction the case would be transferred. Former member of the IOC, currently provisionally suspended from his honorary member status, Carlos Nuzman is 81 years old.
