Juan Antonio Samaranch s. He contributed IOC for 21 years (1980 until 2001) and saved it from the financial ruins. (Figure: x/iocmedia) The coming President Kirsty Coventry and outgoing President Thomas Bach (IOC) (IOC) honors each other at Monday’s ceremonial handover in Paris, and during his prediction until 1980 to 1980, Juan Antonio Samaranch recognizes.Coventers and Samaranch Senior share the background serving in controversial modes before their role IOC. Coventry worked as a minister of sport and art in the government of Zimbabwe, whose elections to 2023 were considered unjustly by international observers, while Samaryk held a high position in Francisco Franco’s fascist regime.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe!The Samaranch Senior Presidency faced control during the Salt Lake City scandal in 2002 in the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, but its contributions to the Olympic movement remain significant.“His legacy is that we have the Olympic Games that we can talk about,” said former marketing powerful Terrence Burns former IOC AFP. “He saved it from the financial and political ruin.”After Franco’s death and the return of Spain to the monarchy, Samara from Senior became a ambassador to the Soviet Union and recognized his political career in Spain. He was constantly claiming he wasn’t a fascist.He appeared to his election as President IOC during the 1980 Moscow Games, which were hit by boycott after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.Former marketing chief IOC Michael Payne emphasized the impact of Samaranch: “Within the IOC I think the Samaranch inheritance is fully understood: that he saved the Olympic movement.”Payne emphasized the success of the Samaranch in the development of a business model, including a television strategy and the best program that has become the most successful sports marketing program ever.According to Payne, Samara from Senior was more introverted than his son, who recently finished second in Coventry in the presidential election of IOC.“He was a very introverted, great listener, did not speak much and a great strategic thinker,” Payne said. “But because he was not at the forefront, he communicated and explained, he was often misunderstood. English learned as a third or fourth language when he was 60.”Samaranch’s leadership showed its resistance during the Salt Lake City scandal, resulting in six members and reforming measures.“He was calm under incredible pressure and stress,” Payne recalled. “Frankly, you went to the office every day and didn’t know if the organization would survive … and that was three months. It was brutal. And yet, Samary Senior showed absolute peace, focus.”In the rare moment of the vulnerability of Samaranch, the Los Angeles Times said in 2000: “After the Barcelona Games (in 1992) I could be a hero, right? I can’t regret it. I have to write my history again.”Samaranch demonstrated his hard bargaining skills when Greece against the lighting of the Olympic torches for games in Los Angeles from 1984 for concerns about commercialization.“Samaranch sent one of his relatives to Olympia to privately record the flame lighting, put it in the upper lamp, and bring him back to Lausanne,” Payne said. “Then Samaranch called the Greeks and said, So he wasn’t ashamed to be very hard.”
