Samaranch was the last IOC leader to stay in office for so long. Under new rules, the maximum term for the president is 12 years (one eight-year mandate, plus the possibility of an additional four ...

Samaranch said he never considered quitting, citing the unbending support of the IOC executive board and the general assembly, which gave him a 86-2 vote of confidence at the height of the scandal.

The tournament, a multi-format basketball competition for amateur players, will be co-organized by the Samaranch Foundation, Xinhua News Agency, and the municipal people's government of Jinjiang, ...

Samaranch retired as the second-longest serving president in the history of the IOC. Only Pierre de Coubertin, the French baron who founded the modern Olympics, was in office longer, serving for ...

Juan Antonio Samaranch, a former International Olympic Committee president, died Wednesday. He was 89. The Quiron Hospital in Barcelona said Samaranch died after being admitted with heart problems ...

Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is running for president of the International Olympic Committee, would push for a decision on transgender athletes' participation in sports before next year's Milano ...

Samaranch passed away at the age of 89 on April 21, 2010. He is survived by his son, IOC member Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs, daughter Maria Teresa Samaranch, and seven grandchildren.

IOC presidential candidate Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. has urged European lawmakers to regard investing in sport as a public health policy in his first keynote speech of a six-month Olympic ...

Samaranch was a key component of the administrative machinery of the Barcelona region. He could have followed the Pope's lead and begged for commutation of the sentence on a 26-year-old student.

Samaranch, succeeded as IOC president by Jacques Rogge, spent two days in a Madrid hospital two years ago after a dizzy spell. He was hospitalized in Switzerland in 2001 for "extreme fatigue" and ...

Samaranch angrily defended himself, saying it was up to Spaniards, not foreign journalists, to judge his record. He said he had only a modest role as director general of sports and parliamentary ...

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Juan Antonio Samaranch, who steered the Olympic movement through two turbulent decades marked by political boycotts, bribery and drug scandals plus a greater emphasis on ...