BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA—Patrick Baumann, the secretary general of basketball’s world governing body who was seen as a potential IOC president, has died at the Youth Olympics. Baumann “unexpectedly succumbed to a heart attack” in Buenos Aires despite getting immediate medical help, the International Basketball Federation said Sunday in a statement. Baumann, the CEO-like secretary general of basketball’s world governing body who was seen as a potential IOC president, has died at the Youth Olympics at the age of 51. “We can hardly believe this terrible news,” IOC president Thomas Bach said in a statement. At meetings last week on the sidelines of the Youth Olympics, Baumann updated IOC members on the Los Angeles Games and the 2020 Lausanne Youth Olympics.

Source: thestar October 14, 2018 16:05 UTC