Former IOC president in Samaranch 'very serious condition' in hospital
MADRID -- Former International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch is in "very serious condition" in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Barcelona.
Quiron Hospital chief of internal medicine Rafael Esteban says the 89-year-old Spaniard is under observation for "acute coronary insufficiency."
Samaranch has been bothered by health problems in recent years, including 11 days in a Swiss hospital because of "extreme fatigue" in 2001 after returning from an IOC session in Moscow, where Jacques Rogge was elected as his successor.
Samaranch also visited a hospital in Monaco in September because of a slight reaction to fatigue, and spent two days in a hospital in Madrid in 2007 after a dizzy spell.
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