Fifa is no 'world governing body', just a squalid cartel
Simon Jenkins
Simon Jenkins: Sepp Blatter may run an upmarket Sopranos, but he won't be held to account by our craven authorities any time soon
September 2010
From the Guardian archive
From the archive: 27 September 1988: Johnson stripped of Olympic gold
Originally published in the Guardian on 27 September 1988: Ben Johnson, the Canadian Olympic 100 metres champion and world-record holder, has lost his gold medal after failing a drugs test
July 2010
From the Guardian archive
From the archive, 10 July 1991: South Africa: the main gate swings open
Originally published in the Guardian on 10 July 1991: South Africa can return to the Olympic arena in Barcelona next year – but only if apartheid is removed from sporting practices in the republic
April 2010
Lord Coe leads tributes to Olympic chief Juan Antonio Samaranch
The double gold medallist has praised the former IOC president, who has died in Barcelona aged 89, but not everyone was so enthusiastic
Juan Antonio Samaranch obituary
He radically reformed the Olympic Games over the final decades of the 20th century
Sportblog
Indian Premier League is in danger of devouring itself
Juan Antonio Samaranch, former IOC president, dies at 89
Juan Antonio Samaranch in 'very serious' condition in hospital
July 2001
Samaranch in new health scare
Kim blames defeat on Samaranch
Claims of foul play as IOC chief bows out
The life and times of Juan Antonio
China shrugs off Olympic warning on human rights
The Olympics after Samaranch
Sunder Katwala
Samaranch's monster
Kevin Mitchell
March 1999
Samaranch's expensive tastes revealed as IOC opens its books
Long live the king, says IOC, after six voted out
IOC expels six members in Salt Lake City scandal
Corruption probe spares Samaranch
February 1999
Investigation launched into spiralling allegations about Nagano bid
Japanese Olympic officials have launched an investigation into Nagano's successful bid for the 1998 Winter Games