Beijing Strip Clubs: OLYMPICS: END OF AN ERA WITH DEATH OF JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH
OLYMPICS: END OF AN ERA WITH DEATH OF JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH
Thursday April 22,2010
THE death of Juan Antonio Samaranch, the seventh president of the International Olympic Committee, aged 89, yesterday brought to a close the most revolutionary period in the history of the Olympic movement.
Elected in 1980, Spaniard Samaranch, seized a near-bankrupt organisation and, within the first 10 years of a reign that lasted 21, transformed both the IOC and the Games beyond recognition. Not everyone approved.
Yet he transformed an old-fashioned, amateur gentlemans club to a condition of frontline professionalism, both within the executive and in the medal-winning arena.
Those 10 years were the first of two revolutions; primarily, the formal acceptance in 1987, against a background of 70 years resistance, of a world that embraced top sponsors.
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