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5 hours ago · The next day, during a memorial service held at the Olympic stadium and attended by 80,000 people — a memorial service for the slain Israeli athletes at which he never mentioned the slain Israeli athletes — Avery Brundage, the chairman of the International Olympic Committee, announced: “The Games will go on.”
5 days ago · During the Cold War era, powerful leaders like former International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Avery Brundage (1952 to 1972) and Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) president Sir Stanley Rous (1961 to 1974) also insisted that sport and politics should not be mixed (Darby, 2002; Guttmann, 1983; MacAloon, 1981).
5 days ago · Glickman has been quoted as saying that the U.S. track Coach Dean Cromwell and Avery Brundage, head of the American Olympic Committee, were motivated by anti-Semitism and the desire to spare the Führer the embarrassing sight of two American Jews on the winning podium.
4 days ago · Outgoing IOC president Avery Brundage used the 1972 Games as his last stand against the increasing number of commercial endorsements by athletes. He asked for the dismissal of some 40 skiers because of amateur rules violations.
1 day ago · In 1948 the IOC executive board, at Avery Brundage’s urging and without discussion, rejected a scholarly petition from another IOC member who sought to reinstate the 1906 Games.
3 days ago · There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating.
1 day ago · The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years (except 2021). The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, Greece, and the most recent Games were held in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.
