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they called uh... avery brundage slavery avery
did the athletes really feel mistreated by the head of the olympic
committee
they did they did and he would only
reinforce that reputation as the years went on when he became the head of the
international olympic committee after the second world war and
stayed in that post until after
uh... the olympic games in munich in nineteen seventy-two brundage was a
stubborn uh... pig headed
uh...
he was a bigot
uh...he did a lot of great things for the amateur athletic movement and a lot of great things for the
olympics there's no doubt about that
uh... but he was also somebody who couldn't see the forest for the trees
and he did get nicknamed slavery avery
uh... justifiably so i think
and is perhaps best remembered not for
what happened in thirty six but in seventy two insisting that the games must go on
the day after the massacre of israeli athletes and the suspension in sixty eight
of the the the militant black uh... athletes who
uh... had won gold and simply wanted to express themselves he was the head of
the international olympic committee
by that point he wasn't uh...
uh...
it wasn't
something that he did personally but certainly something that he approved and condoned
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