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5 days ago · Now on Germany's team, Avery Brundage announces that the Nazis are fulfilling their pledge. - We are the American Olympic Committee. Believe that every red-blooded American will support the...
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2 days ago · The presidential terms of Avery Brundage and Juan Antonio Samaranch were especially controversial. Brundage fought strongly for amateurism and against the commercialisation of the Olympic Games, even as these attitudes came to be seen as incongruous with the realities of modern sports.
3 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. Brundage was then the American. He died in Germany. *****
2 days ago · Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression.
1 day 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.
3 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).
1 day 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.
