MADRID, Spain (CNN)-- Former International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Juan Antonio Samaranch has died of a cardiac arrest at the age of 89. He was with his family when he died, a spokesman ...

Spain's El País newspaper has published claims from at least two former athletes that Carlos Gil Pérez, who died in 2009, ...

Four decades after the 1984 Winter Olympics, Sarajevo is contending with what to do with its Olympic venues. Many are ...

The Catalan has held several positions with the IOC after joining in November 1992 at the request of then-president Juan Antonio Samaranch THE COLUMN: For Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs ...

Juan Antonio Samaranch, vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), reiterated that the Olympic Movement has "a lot at stake" with the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, because the event ...

His beef with the Olympic Committee comes from personal experience and dates from a Season 2 interview with then-IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, who boasted, “We [the Olympic movement] are ...

LOOKING FOR THE BEST SHOW When Juan Antonio Samaranch became IOC president in 1980, he made it clear he wanted the best athletes at the Olympics. The IOC worked hard with soccer, ice hockey and ...

(ATR) IOC president Thomas Bach touted the legacy of former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch at the release of a new biography about the man Bach says "forged the modern Olympic Movement".

1980 - Juan Antonio Samaranch was elected IOC President and quickly led the Games from amateurism towards full professionalism for athletes while also opening up the body to commercial operations.

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