‘Great survivor’ who left tainted Olympic legacy By Andrew Jennings Juan Antonio Samaranch, who has died aged 89, led the International Olympic Committee to its greatest prosperity and its worst corruption scandal. He took control as commercial sponsorship turned to sport for new marketing opportunities and reoriented the games into a marketing vehicle for the world's best-known consumer products [...]. Samaranch was the great survivor. Probably the last of his generation of European fascist politicians to remain active in public life,