Avery Brundage

Olympic movement, United States. Brundage competed in the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics, then led the US Olympic Committee, where he opposed a boycott of the 1936 Berlin Games, and was IOC president from 1952 to 1972. He enforced strict amateurism for decades and, after the killing of Israeli athletes at Munich in 1972, insisted that "the Games must go on", a decision still debated.