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Sep 18, 2020 · Updated Sept 18, 2020. As dreams go, this one seemed preposterous. But 30 years ago today, Sept. 18, 1990, in an enormous, ornate ballroom in Tokyo, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President...
Juan Antonio Samaranch was born on 17 July 1920 in Barcelona as the third of six children in a wealthy Catalan family. In 1938, during the Spanish Civil War, he was conscripted to serve as a medical assistant in the Spanish Republican Armed Forces. Samaranch's political sympathies were for the Nationalists, and he deserted to Nationalist-held ...
- Sports administrator, Diplomat
- IESE, Universidad de Navarra
- Jacques Rogge
- María Teresa Samaranch Salisachs, 2nd Marchioness of Samaranch, Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs
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Jul 20, 2021 · 19 Jul 1996: Juan Antonio Samaranch, left, President Clinton and Billy Payne, right, President of A 19 Jul 1996: Juan Antonio Samaranch, left, President Clinton and Billy Payne, right, President ...
May 31, 1996 · LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND -- Two months before the curtain rises on the Centennial Games in Atlanta, Juan Antonio Samaranch is savoring the kind of good life that seemed unimaginable when he...
Aug 4, 2011 · John Bazemore/AP. Bringing the 1996 Summer Olympic Games to Atlanta was a long shot. Athens, Greece, was the sentimental favorite to host the centennial games, and tension was palpable as IOC...
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Jul 16, 2020 · Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was born 100 years ago this week, was a man of extraordinary vision who transformed the Olympic Movement in the 20th century. 8 min read |Published on 16 July 2020. IOC News.
Apr 22, 2010 · He was 89. The cause was heart failure, said a spokesman for the Quirón hospital in Barcelona, where Mr. Samaranch had been admitted. In a statement on Wednesday, Jacques Rogge, who succeeded...
