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Former IOC member Mario Vazquez Rana dies at 82

Xinhua, February 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

Former International Olympic Committee member Mario Vazquez Rana from Mexico has died of illness at the age of 82, the IOC announced on Monday.

Vazquez Rana, an IOC member from 1991 to 2012, had also been the president of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) for 33 years before resigning in March 2012.

Vazquez Rana had been the president of the Mexican Olympic Committee between 1974 and 2001. Endi