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...wrath against the Canadian government is certain," wrote the Frankfurter Allgemeine. "In a confrontation between sports and politics, sports proved to be powerless." "Politics should not be an issue any more than religion," said Edward W. ("Moose") Krause, athletic director at Notre Dame. "This just makes me sick." Lord Killanin, head of the International Olympic Committee, was sick too. "Government interference is the most serious problem we face," he declared. "We're scarred, and I, as president, have had my eye blackened...
...that time, the storm had already broken. I.O.C. President Lord Killanin, an amiable former Irish journalist, charged Canada with violating a "fundamental" Olympic premise: "No discrimination is allowed against any country or person on the grounds of race, religion or political affiliation." Lord Killanin pointed out that even in 1936, when the Hitler regime threatened to make trouble over the appearance of Jewish and black athletes in Berlin, the Nazis decided not to tamper with the Games. Canada's objections had come far too late for the I.O.C. to consider a change of venue for the Games. Declared Killanin...
...Acceptable. Nonetheless, Killanin began arranging a compromise. Just 48 hours before the opening of the Games last week, Canada agreed that Taiwan could keep its flag and its anthem as long as it dropped the name Republic of China and instead called itself simply Taiwan. That was still not acceptable to the Taiwanese, but the arrangement mollified U.S. representatives to the I.O.C., who faced a revolt among their athletes if they went ahead with their threat of a U.S. boycott of the Olympics...
...more radical notion, endorsed in principle by Lord Killanin of Ireland, Brundage's successor as head of the I.O.C., is to continue the Olympic movement without a quadrennial Olympiad. As Lord Killanin points out: "There is too much concentration on the fortnight of the Games rather than on the Olympic movement, which goes on all the time." This is probably the soundest proposal of all. The Games could be spread over a longer period as well as geographically across a nation or even a group of nations. This would lessen the present emphasis on a single spectacle, thus diluting...
...Lord Killanin's views are not diametrically opposed to those of Brundage. For example, he sided unsuccessfully with Brundage on the Rhodesian issue. But his new eight-year term does augur the beginning of some healthy changes in the Olympic movement. "I don't believe in open Olympics," he says. "I don't believe in professional Olympics. But I do think we have to realize that we are about to enter the last quarter of the 20th century." Killanin has already hinted at one possible change. In an effort to shake the image of the I.O.C...