Keskustelu:Avery Brundage

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In 1932, he was part of a special committee of the IAAF which disqualified Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi from the Los Angeles Games for allegedly accepting monetary compensation.s. 60

Immediately upon arrival in Germany, Brundage became headline news when he and the AOC dismissed swimmer Eleanor Holm, who was a gold medalist in 1932 and expected to repeat; she was kicked off the team for getting drunk at late-night parties and missing her curfew. There were various rumors and accounts of the married swimmer's pursuits while on board the ship. The gossip included statements that she was at an "all-night party" with playwright Charles MacArthur, who was traveling without his wife, actress Helen Hayes.[38][39] Brundage discussed the matter with fellow AOC members, then met with Holm.[38] Although the AOC attempted to send her home, Holm pleaded in vain for reinstatement; "to the AOC's horror", she remained in Berlin as a journalist.[38] In later years, she claimed that Brundage had kicked her off the team because he had propositioned her, and she had turned him down.[40] According to Guttmann, "Brundage has appeared, ever since [1936], in the guise of a killjoy."[41] Butterfield noted that through the efforts of sportswriters who supported Jarrett, "Brundage became celebrated as a tyrant, snob, hypocrite, dictator and stuffed shirt, as well as just about the meanest man in the whole world of sports".[42]

In 1938, his construction company received the contract to build a new German embassy in Washington (this was not fulfilled as World War II intervened).s. 99

During his first marriage, Brundage fathered two sons out of wedlock with his Finnish mistress, Lilian Dresden. His affair with Dresden was one of many. The children were born in 1951 and 1952, at precisely the time that Brundage was being considered for the presidency of the IOC. Though he privately acknowledged paternity, Brundage took great pains to conceal the existence of these children; he was concerned that the truth about his extra-marital relationships might damage his chances of election. He requested that his name be kept off the birth certificates. Brundage visited his two sons periodically in the 1950s, visits that tailed off to telephone calls in the 1960s and nothing in his final years. He did establish a trust fund for the boys' education and start in life, but after his death, unnamed in his will, they sued and won a small settlement of $62,500 each out of his $19 million estate.[1] --Espoo (keskustelu) 4. maaliskuuta 2018 kello 11.21 (EET)