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Ticket inquiry: IOC's Hickey goes from hospital to police

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — IOC executive Patrick Hickey was discharged Thursday from a hospital and went straight to a Rio de Janeiro police station to be questioned about an Olympics ticket scalping investigation.

The 71-year-old Irishman was arrested in a dawn raid Wednesday in the IOC hotel, but he immediately was hospitalized with chest pains.

The Olympic Council of Ireland told The Associated Press that a member of its Rio Games delegation was allowed to go to Hickey's bedside to be informed of his decision to step aside temporarily from his IOC duties.

A member of the IOC's ruling executive board, Hickey was in charge of the influential umbrella group for Europe's Olympic bodies.