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This week, the sporting world mourned several losses, and each one dimming the brightness of the community’s color. We remember those who have finished their race, and recount their contributions to our enjoyment of the raw humanity of sport.

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Juan Antonio Samaranch has been hailed as an IOC president who modernized the Olympics and made it a truly global event.

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TOKYO – Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara blamed his city’s failure to win the right to host the 2016 Games on behind-the-scenes deals, saying Japanese sports officials must become more adept in dealing with the inner workings of the International Olympic Committee.

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It isn’t only the thought that security may be compromised during the 16-day festivities. What is also bothersome is the increasing commercialization of the Summer Games–a deterioration of the Olympic spirit.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 109979 [Title] => GMA cites Samaranch’s Olympic legacy [Summary] => President Arroyo conferred yesterday state honors to International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Juan Antonio Samaranch whom she cited for his outstanding accomplishments and contributions to sports that benefitted big and small countries as well like the Philippines.

The President conferred upon Samaranch the Order of Sikatuna with a Rank of Datu in simple rites held at Malacañang.

"The games have really flourished so much under your term (at the IOC)," President Arroyo told Samaranch as she awarded the medal and plaque of citation.
[DatePublished] => 2001-04-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 109990 [Title] => Hail to the Chief - SPORTING CHANCE by Joaquin M. Henson [Summary] => International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Juan Antonio Samaranch has been described as corrupt, despotic, extravagant, and devious by his harshest critics. But even those who make it a habit to harangue Samaranch must admit the Catalan from Barcelona rescued the Olympics from bankruptcy and turned it into a sustainable enterprise that has assured its long-term existence as a world-wide spectacle.

Samaranch, 81, arrives tonight in the course of a five-nation swing of Asia. He leaves tomorrow afternoon.
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Samaranch and his party of five are scheduled to have breakfast with Philippine Olympic Committee officials, led by chairman Robert Aventajado and president Celso Dayrit, IOC representative to the Philippines Francisco Elizalde, NSA (national sports association) presidents and the media tomorrow before calling on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at 10 a.m. in Malacañang.
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This week, the sporting world mourned several losses, and each one dimming the brightness of the community’s color. We remember those who have finished their race, and recount their contributions to our enjoyment of the raw humanity of sport.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 568453 [Title] => Juan Antonio Samaranch hailed as Olympic great [Summary] =>

Juan Antonio Samaranch has been hailed as an IOC president who modernized the Olympics and made it a truly global event.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-22 16:09:04 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 510987 [Title] => Politics blamed for Tokyo failure [Summary] =>

TOKYO – Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara blamed his city’s failure to win the right to host the 2016 Games on behind-the-scenes deals, saying Japanese sports officials must become more adept in dealing with the inner workings of the International Olympic Committee.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 261570 [Title] => Tension in Athens air [Summary] => There is a feeling of anxiety among athletes, officials, journalists and spectators at the Athens Olympics.

It isn’t only the thought that security may be compromised during the 16-day festivities. What is also bothersome is the increasing commercialization of the Summer Games–a deterioration of the Olympic spirit.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 109979 [Title] => GMA cites Samaranch’s Olympic legacy [Summary] => President Arroyo conferred yesterday state honors to International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Juan Antonio Samaranch whom she cited for his outstanding accomplishments and contributions to sports that benefitted big and small countries as well like the Philippines.

The President conferred upon Samaranch the Order of Sikatuna with a Rank of Datu in simple rites held at Malacañang.

"The games have really flourished so much under your term (at the IOC)," President Arroyo told Samaranch as she awarded the medal and plaque of citation.
[DatePublished] => 2001-04-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 109990 [Title] => Hail to the Chief - SPORTING CHANCE by Joaquin M. Henson [Summary] => International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Juan Antonio Samaranch has been described as corrupt, despotic, extravagant, and devious by his harshest critics. But even those who make it a habit to harangue Samaranch must admit the Catalan from Barcelona rescued the Olympics from bankruptcy and turned it into a sustainable enterprise that has assured its long-term existence as a world-wide spectacle.

Samaranch, 81, arrives tonight in the course of a five-nation swing of Asia. He leaves tomorrow afternoon.
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Samaranch and his party of five are scheduled to have breakfast with Philippine Olympic Committee officials, led by chairman Robert Aventajado and president Celso Dayrit, IOC representative to the Philippines Francisco Elizalde, NSA (national sports association) presidents and the media tomorrow before calling on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at 10 a.m. in Malacañang.
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