IOC’s Samaranch is dead

 

Barcelona, April 21: Juan Antonio Samaranch, a reserved but shrewd dealmaker whose 21-year term as president of the International Olympic Committee was marked by both the unprecedented growth of the games and its biggest ethics scandal, died at a hospital here Wednesday. He was 89.

Samaranch, a courtly former diplomat who served as Spanish ambassador in Moscow, led the IOC from 1980 to 2001. He was considered one of the defining presidents for building the IOC into a powerful global organisation and firmly establishing the Olympics as a world force.
Samaranch was admitted to Barcelona’s Quiron Hospital on Sunday after experiencing heart trouble. The hospital said he died at 1.25 pm local time.
IOC president Jacques Rogge, who will be among those at a special ceremony Thursday morning before the funeral at Barcelona’s cathedral, said: “I cannot find the words to express the distress of the Olympic family.”    —AP

 

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