President Juan Antonio Samaranch of the International...

President Juan Antonio Samaranch of the International Olympic Committee took a brief stroll outside the Barcelona clinic where he is being treated for a colon ulcer and said he will be released today.

Samaranch, 68, told reporters that he plans to leave Quiron Clinic and return to his IOC work in Lausanne, Switzerland, but joked he is staying another day “because it’s comfortable and I’m being cared for better than at home.”