Samaranch is being treated at Hospital Clinico San Carlos in Madrid.(ATR) Ex-IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch is expected to leave a Madrid hospital on Friday. He’s been treated since collapsing at an event Wednesday and the latest medical report says he is “not in any danger”.
“It was quite spectacular with all the press and cameras there,” son Juan Antonio Samaranch tells Around the Rings about the incident.
“He is feeling much better,” Samaranch Jr. said a few hours after the collapse, attributed to complications from high blood pressure.
"The patient has responded favorably to the treatment given to deal with his high blood pressure," said a statement from the Hospital Clinico San Carlos issued Thursday. Samaranch, right, in Rio de Janeiro last July, with IOC President Jacques Rogge, left, and Pan American Sports Organization President Mario Vazquez Rana. (ATR)
"He is stable and has been conscious at all times. We've controlled his high blood pressure but the cardiologists have decided that he should remain in hospital for another day as they want to adjust his usual treatment before he is discharged tomorrow”.
Samaranch, 87, has kept to a busy schedule since leaving the IOC presidency in 2001. His son says that the trip to Madrid Wednesday was one of several his father had booked over the course of a week between Samaranch’s home in Barcelona and the Spanish capital.
Last week he was in Lausanne for events involving the Olympic Museum, the board of which he chairs.
Written by Ed Hula
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