The former president of International Olympic Committee (IOC) Juan Antonio Samaranch, one of the great world referents of Olympism, which turned the Olympics into a global entertainment giant, died Wednesday in Barcelona at age 89.
Juan Antonio Samaranch "has died at 13h25 (11h25 GMT) on the day April 21, 2010 following a cardiac arrest," the hospital Chiron Barcelona in a brief statement, signed by Dr. Rafael Esteban Mur, director of Service Internal Medicine.
Juan Antonio Samaranch "has died at 13h25 (11h25 GMT) on the day April 21, 2010 following a cardiac arrest," the hospital Chiron Barcelona in a brief statement, signed by Dr. Rafael Esteban Mur, director of Service Internal Medicine.
Hours before his death, the current girlfriend of Samaranch, Lluisa Sallent, had said the former president of the IOC was "very bad", visibly affected in the corridors of the hospital in Barcelona, where he was admitted on Sunday with a box " acute coronary insufficiency.
After knowing of the death Samaranch, samples of condolence have continued to succeed throughout the day, beginning with the kings of Spain, who stressed "their vocation of service to Spain, Cataluña and the Olympic spirit.
The kings will attend on the afternoon of Thursday in the Cathedral of Barcelona the funeral of Samaranch, whose chapel was installed in the morning in the Catalan regional government headquarters, the Palau de la Generalitat after noon.
The Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, said: "This has been one of the emblematic figures representing Spain."
Also from abroad have come condolences. "I feel very sorry for the death of the man who gave a great impetus to the Olympics of the modern era," said IOC President Jacques Rogge, who passed the baton Samaranch in 2001
. "It's a tremendous loss for the Olympic family irreplaceable, for those who met this brilliant man of many facets, amazing, friendly and open-minded," said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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