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Juan Antonio Samaranch passed away on April...
Samaranch took the reins of the International Olympic Committee, he found an organization in crisis. It was having a hard time finding Olympic hosts, as the host city had to bear the full cost of the Games and the idea of making a profit was out of the question. Samaranch not only rescued the IOC financially, he made it a force that even the most powerful corporations had to reckon with. Now the Games are an opportunity, not a burden. The committee now picks sponsors and television channels from a long list of applicants. Wherever there is big money, talk of corruption inevitably follows, whether justified or not. The IOC and its president did not escape suspicion.Ironically, Samaranch, a Spanish aristocrat who sided with the Falange and was close to the dictator Francisco Franco, was also accused of cozying up to Moscow. He was even accused of being a KGB agent, though there wasn"t a shred of evidence to back it up.
No doubt, the Soviet Union gave Samaranch a lot
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