Samaranch Remembered: Tributes for Former IOC President

(ATR) From current IOC President Jacques Rogge and other IOC members, to staff members and organizing committee leaders, former IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch is remembered as a powerful figure for the Olympic Movement. Services for Samaranch, who died Wednesday morning at age 89, will be held just 24 hours later in his birthplace of [...]

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The View from Here: Tragedy Demands Legacy from Vancouver

There’s no way anybody could speculate that grief, not joy, would be the first emotion to sweep over the Vancouver Olympics. While I mused last week in my first column from Vancouver about what gripping stories might emerge from the 2010 Olympics, the death of an athlete was not one of them. Minutes after my [...]

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