International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach will wait until after this summer's Paris Olympics with an announcement whether he wants to run again in 2025 for the top job.
IOC spokesman Mark Adams said around executive board meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday that this decision was based on an according recommendation by the IOC ethics commission and unanimously approved by the EB.
"It is clear that the time of such a decision bears a high risk to overshadow the course of the Olympic Games as well as the election campaign itself," the ethics committee recommendation said, quoted by Adams.
"Therefore, in order to protect this election process it is recommended to the IOC president to postpone any such decision until the end of the Olympic Games."
Germany's Bach has presided over the IOC since 2013 and under the Olympic Charter can not run for a third time in 2025.
But at the last IOC Session in October in Mumbai a number of IOC members asked Bach to seek another term which would require a change of the charter. The IOC has said this could be done via a postal vote.
Bach has not ruled out staying on but has also said he is loyal to the Olympic Charter.
The Paris Games are scheduled for July 26-August 11.
Term and age limits were introduced at the IOC in the aftermath of the bribes for votes scandal around the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. The president is elected for eight years and can seek a second term of four years.
