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Jun 2024
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Part One: How Avery Brundage Gave Hitler...

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Robert sits down with Matt Lieb to discuss Avery Brundage, the millionaire athlete and professional Olympics nerd who stopped the U.S. from Boycotting the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

 

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