PHOTOS: Juan Antonio Samaranch | 1920-2010

Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, makes the opening address at the 11th Olympic Congress in Baden-Baden, West Germany, in 1981. An unidentified athlete holds the Olympic flag. Samaranch died Wednesday in Barcelona at age 89.
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President Reagan meets with Samaranch, second from right, and Peter Ueberroth, president of the Los Angles Olympic Games, in the Oval Office. Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver is at left.
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Ueberroth, right, and Samaranch, take a last-minute tour of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Games.
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Samaranch speaks during the opening ceremony for the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway.
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The IOC president holds the Olympic torch in Athens.
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IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, left, U.S. President Bill Clinton, center, and Atlanta Olympic Games President Billy Payne applaud during the opening ceremony of the 1996 Games in Atlanta.
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Former world heavyweight boxing champion and 1960 Olympic gold medalist Muhammad Ali is congratulated by International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch after receiving a replacement gold medal for his 1960 victory. Ali had thrown the original medal into the Ohio River when he was criticized for not fighting in Vietnam.
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The “Samaranch Collection” is displayed during a press conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. Late in Samaranch’s IOC presidency, a corruption scandal erupted amid revelations that bidders in Salt Lake City had showered IOC members with more than $1 million in cash and gifts in a winning campaign to land the 2002 Winter Games. The organization opened its storerooms for a glimpse of some of the gifts, including a Browning Arms 9mm single action handgun.
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International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch, left, accompanied by National Drug Control Policy Director Barry McCaffrey, meets with reporters outside the White House to discuss the World Anti-Doping Agency. For all his political and diplomatic successes, Samaranch was never able to eradicate the use of performance-enhancing substances among Olympic athletes.
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International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch is sworn in before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington to testify about the Salt Lake scandal.
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Samaranch overlooks the track at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Stadium.
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IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch joins in a wave during the men’s beach volleyball gold medal match between Brazil and the United States during the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
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Olympic judo champ David Douillet of France, left, with Samaranch, right, and IOC member Pal Schmitt, donated to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, the kimono he wore when he won gold at the Sydney Olympic Games in September 2000.
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Samaranch speaks at the unveiling of a monument in his honor in Moscow.
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Outgoing International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch wears the gold Olympic order necklace at Dom Soyuzov (Column Hall) in Moscow. An announcement ceremony was held there for the newly elected IOC president, Jacques Rogge.
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Former IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch presents Michelle Kwan of the United States with her bronze medal in the women’s figure skating free program at the Salt Lake Ice Center during the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games.
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