Former International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio
Samaranch fainted at a conference in Madrid and was taken to
hospital on Wednesday.
A statement made by Madrid's Clinico San Carlos said that the
87-year-old Samaranch had cardio-vascular problems.
Local media quoted head of Spain's Olympic committee, Alejandro
Blanco, as saying Samaranch had felt unwell during a conference in
the Spanish capital.
"It is nothing serious," Blanco said. "Everything will be back
to normal. The situation is under control. "
Samaranch was head of the IOC from 1980 to 2001. Recently, he
has been pushing Madrid's bid to host the Olympics in 2016.
On July 17, 2001, his 81st birthday, he was hospitalized in
Lausanne, Switzerland for "extreme fatigue." He was hospitalized
again in Barcelona a month later for arterial hypertension due to
the effort of organizing the IOC Congress in Moscow.
(Xinhua News Agency December 20, 2007)