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Hace 23 horas · Adolf Hitler played host to the games, while Avery Brundage, ... Through his perspective, readers witness Brundage’s complicity with the Nazis, the resilience of American athletes, and the extreme pressure on German athletes. The stories of these athletes, filled with heartbreak and heroism, extend beyond the playing field.
Hace 5 días · Blutstein also covers the pageantry and gullibility of Avery Brundage's 1954 trip to the USSR as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Brundage visited the Soviet Union at a time when many in the West suspected—correctly, although evidently unnoticed by Brundage—that Soviet Olympians were flouting IOC rules.
Hace 2 días · He is especially critical of Avery Brundage, the then president of the US Olympic Committee. Glickman’s initial non-combative approach was not all that surprising, says Gurock.
Hace 2 días · He is especially critical of Avery Brundage, the then president of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Glickman’s initial non-combative approach was not all that surprising, says Gurock. His “reticence to call out prejudice and to create an uproar over antisemitism was in line with the way many Jews — perhaps most Jews — of that era dealt with Jew hatred.
Hace 23 horas · Direction pendant 20 ans du Comité international olympique par le raciste et antisémite américain Avery Brundage. De 36 à Berlin, l’invention du relais de la flamme par Goebbels pour propager l’idéologie nazie à 76 à Montréal année du boycott des pays africains pour protester contre l’apartheid en Afrique du Sud.
Hace 4 días · IOC president Avery Brundage (1952-1972) was very much against professionals in the Olympics but when he ended his Presidency this doctrine started to crumble. Cold War politics played a part…Western Bloc countries like the US felt Eastern Bloc countries like USSR and East Germany were funding their athletes through bogus “military training” and therefore using professionals at multiple ...
Hace 1 día · Avery Brundage est connu comme une force principale du ‘succès’ des Jeux Olympiques de Berlin en 1936. Sans le soutien de Brundage, président du Comité olympique des États-Unis, la propagande du Troisième Reich n’aurait pas eu l’impact qu’elle a eu.
