Stoss elected president of Austrian Olympic Committee

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VIENNA (AP) -- Karl Stoss has been elected president of the Austrian Olympic Committee.

Stoll succeeds Leo Wallner, who resigned last month in the wake of a series of financial scandals.

The 52-year-old Stoss, general director at Casinos Austria and managing director at Austrian Lotteries, was elected to a four-year term Thursday during the committee's extraordinary general meeting.

The 73-year-old Wallner ran the organization for 19 years, making him Austria's longest-serving national Olympic committee president.

The committee was recently hit by a financial scandal surrounding Salzburg's failed bid for the 2014 Winter Games. AOC general secretary Heinz Jungwirth also stepped down earlier this year.

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