Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International...

Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, dismissed as “untruthful” claims by Ben Johnson’s doctor that the IOC chief wanted to withhold news of the Canadian sprinter’s failed doping test at the Seoul Olympics.

A cover-up would have been impossible as 30 to 40 people, including members of the IOC’s medical and executive commissions and the Canadian delegation, knew of the results of Johnson’s tests, Samaranch told a Geneva newspaper.