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To head off the boycott threat, Brundage assured US officials that he had pressured the Nazis officials into dropping their exclusionary policy. He had successfully averted the boycott, but allegations later arose that Brundage had done so by cutting a backroom deal with the Nazis, at the expense of Jewish athletes.
The only Jews on the 1936 US Olympic track team were Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller. To show there would be no exclusion, Glickman and Stoller traveled with the US team to Berlin. Their race was the 400 metre relay, which was to be run in Berlin Stadium on a day Adolf Hitler happened to be attending. However, on the morning of the relay, when it was then too late to re ignite a boycott threat, US officials without warning removed Glickman and Stoller from the relay team, denying them the gold medals their team would go on to win. Glickman would later attribute the decision to pressure from Brundage.
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Black US civil rights leaders and black owned magazines like Ebony went after Brundage personally, publicly exposing that he owned a business that excluded Jews and African Americans, the Montecito Country Club. Such exclusionary policies unfortunately were not rare in the US social venues when Brundage bought the Club in the 1940s.
However, under Brundage’s ownership, the Montecito Country Club was seen as maintaining its racist walls long after many other private clubs had torn theirs down.
Publicly branded a racist and hypocrite in the press, Brundage reluctantly yielded to disinviting South Africa from the ‘68 Games. However, this public humiliation apparently did not embarrass him enough to open up the Montecito Country Club to Jews or blacks.
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>To head off the boycott threat, Brundage assured US officials that he had pressured the Nazis officials into dropping their exclusionary policy. He had successfully averted the boycott, but allegations later arose that Brundage had done so by cutting a backroom deal with the Nazis, at the expense of Jewish athletes.
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The only Jews on the 1936 US Olympic track team were Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller. To show there would be no exclusion, Glickman and Stoller traveled with the US team to Berlin. Their race was the 400 metre relay, which was to be run in Berlin Stadium on a day Adolf Hitler happened to be attending. However, on the morning of the relay, when it was then too late to re ignite a boycott threat, US officials without warning removed Glickman and Stoller from the relay team, denying them the gold medals their team would go on to win. Glickman would later attribute the decision to pressure from Brundage.
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>Black US civil rights leaders and black owned magazines like Ebony went after Brundage personally, publicly exposing that he owned a business that excluded Jews and African Americans, the Montecito Country Club. Such exclusionary policies unfortunately were not rare in the US social venues when Brundage bought the Club in the 1940s.
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However, under Brundage’s ownership, the Montecito Country Club was seen as maintaining its racist walls long after many other private clubs had torn theirs down.
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Publicly branded a racist and hypocrite in the press, Brundage reluctantly yielded to disinviting South Africa from the ‘68 Games. However, this public humiliation apparently did not embarrass him enough to open up the Montecito Country Club to Jews or blacks.
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