Juan Antonio Samaranch
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Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquess of Samaranch was a Spanish sports administrator under the Franco regime who served as the seventh president of the International Olympic Committee from 1
Samaranch in 1998
Samaranch (middle) at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 1987
Samaranch (left) and Jean-Pascal Delamuraz (c. 1982–1984)
Juan Antonio Samaranch Olympic Hall, formerly Zetra Olympic Hall, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jacques Rogge
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Jacques Jean Marie, Count Rogge was a Belgian sports administrator, former athlete, and physician, who served as the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee from 2001 to 2013. In 2013,
Juan Antonio Samaranch
…the memory and spirit of modern Olympism, the work of his career, crowned his presidency. On 16 July 2001, he left the seat of the IOC presidency to Jacques Rogge. Samaranch became Honorary Life President of the IOC and was awarded the Gold Olympic Order upon standing down from the presidency. The IOC also voted…
Rogge in 2014
Jacques Rogge with Juan Antonio Samaranch and Vladimir Putin following Rogge's election as IOC President in 2001
Grave of Jacques Rogge in Sint-Martens-Latem
Rogge decorated by Dmitry Medvedev into the Order of Friendship in 2011