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| Shui: Reports say that it was in early 1952, you went to Helsinki as a reporter for a Spanish newspaper. From that Olympic Games, since then you had a strong desire to serve and to work in the International Olympic Committee. Juan: Yes, you’re right. I discovered the importance of the Olympic Movement in 1952 on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Helsinki. Zatopek, he won the 5000m, 10000m, and the marathon. I can not forget, I will not forget for my life when he entered the stadium as a winner of the marathon, all the Finnish spectators, they were shouting, “Zatopek! Zatopek!” This is an image I can not forget. Shui: Somebody says you are one of the most outstanding presidents of the International Olympic Committee, after Coubertin. How do you take that? Juan: Well, I will say that after Coubertin, I was the president to serve for more years. Coubertin was, I think 29 years, as the president of the IOC. I was 21. And the president following me was only 20. But today the mandate of the president of the International Olympic Committee is limited to 12 years maximum. Shui: Many people have very high comments about you, because you are the person who brought the International Olympic Committee into the modern times. And you did a lot of reforms of the Committee and also the Olympiad in general. For example, solved the financial problem, the crisis facing the IOC before you took over. And then the commercialism of the IOC. Even, you know, for the so-called amateurism7) or the professionalism. These are all the things. Juan: Well, I did all these things, but I would like to say that the most important is to realize that the history, not of the Olympic Movement, but the history of sport, has two different parts. One is before television, and after television. Because television brought to sport... to spread the sport all around the world. Not only this one. It brought to sport a lot of money. And thanks to this money, we can help the national Olympic committees around the world to train the athletes, to pay travel expenses and accommodations, to participate in the main events like the Olympic Games. That means the history of sport, there are two parts: before television and after television. Shui: I guess at that time, when you were carrying out these reforms, you need courage. I guess a lot of pressure, and resistance, right? Juan: Well, you need courage, you need resistance, but mainly you need a good team surrounding you. Because you are not taking all the decisions. You have to, before taking a decision, you have to listen to the people surrounding you, and their advice and their experience. My presidency of the International Olympic Committee was not a single presidency. We were presiding with a very good team. Shui: Mr. President, you have been retired for 6 years. But we know that you are the honorary president for life for the IOC. How’s your life in retirement? Juan: Related with the Olympic Movement, I am the co-president, with the president of the IOC, of the foundation of the Olympic Museum. For this reason I am here to open this exhibition of Olympic memorabilia8): medals, torches, pins and so on. It was a big, huge success in Beijing. I am the honorary president of a very important service bank, maybe the most important service bank in the world. The name is La Caixa. And we are trying to open a branch also in Beijing. Because we have very good relations with 80, 70～80 thousand Chinese living in Spain. I have to tell you that for these 70～80 thousand Chinese living in Spain, 60 thousand, they have their money in our Caixa, in our savings bank. That is, they trust us. |
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