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Biography. Avery Brundage served as the 5th President of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972. He served during a tumultuous time politically, in which the Olympics were changing dramatically from a small sporting festival to one of the best-known symbols in the world.
Avery Brundage was an American sports administrator who served as the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972. The only American and only non-European to attain that position, Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of amateurism and for his involvement with the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics, both held in ...
Avery Brundage – The Man Who Would Be King. 18 In the annals of Olympic history, much has been written about Avery Brundage, the long time President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He was perhaps best known for holding Olympic athletes to a strict standard of amateurism, a rule now long abandoned.
