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Bundage and Hitler's 1936 Games
Bundage went to Germany to see if the Nazi party was toxic and was given a sublimed tour and returned stating the Nazi's treated the Jews well.
By allowing the Third Reich to have the games, the IOC served to legitimized Hitler's Nazi Regime. The Nazi's "cleansed" cities for the the international audience.
Served as a launching pad for over the top nationalism associated with the Olympics today. -
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No Olympics due to World War II
World War II stopped both 1940 and 1944 Olympic games -
Games Reinstated with Germany's grand spectacles
The IOC normalized the "national Trappings" of the Berlin games. Served to create an "orgy of hatred" among nations -
Tokyo Olympic displacements
Tokyo using force evicted massive amounts of people who were then displaced -
Mexico City Olympic massacre
Hundreds of Students and workers were slaughtered by security forces becuase they were protesting the olympics. The president Bunbrage did nothing and just wanted the games on time. -
Black September murders
1972 Olympics, palestinian terrorists took 11 israeli athletes hostage and killed them in a botched rescue attempt. IOC halted the games for 1 day and then proceeded as planned. This causes countries to leave in protest. One dutch athlete stated "you give a party and someone is killed at the party, you don't continue the party, you go home". this created more opposition to the IOC -
Greece games show heightened security and dissent of the people
50,000 troops for the games, rounded up homeless people, drug addicts, and mentally ill people and locked them up. created a war like atmosphere in Greece -
Sochi Olympics and Corruption
The most expensive games in history. Businessmen and officials close to Putin stole up to 30 billion in funds. Contracts for building structures given to Putin's friends at outrageous prices. IOC continues to not care as long as the games continue. They provided legitamacy to Putin just had they did for Hitler.
