JUAN Antonio Samaranch, the man who was president of the International Olympic Committee for 21 years until 2001, has died aged 89.
Samaranch is credited as the man who brought professional sport into the Olympics.
IOC president Jacques Rogge, who succeeded Samaranch, said: “I cannot find the words to express the distress of the Olympic Family.”
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