The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday cleared Brazil's suspended Olympic body to participate in upcoming events but affirmed that a broader ban imposed amid a corruption scandal remains in force. "The Brazilian Olympic Committee (BOC)... will be allowed to exercise its membership rights in National Olympic Committee (NOC) associations again", the IOC said in a statement.
The move will allow Brazilian officials take part in two meetings scheduled to take place in Prague this week. The IOC provisionally suspended the BOC on October 6 following the arrest of its chief Carlos Nuzman in a $2 million (1.7 million euros) vote-buying scandal. Nuzman has been accused of making payoffs ahead of the 2009 vote that awarded Rio the 2016 Games.
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