Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin was an Irish journalist, author, sports official, and the sixth president of the International Olympic Committee, serving from 1972 to 1980. He succeeded his uncle a
Morris in 1976
Commemorative stained glass window for Killanin in Spiddal
Avery Brundage
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Avery Brundage was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee, serving from 1952 to 1972, the only American and first non-European to attain that position. Brundage is remembered as a
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin
…Olympic Council of Ireland (the OCI), and became his country's representative in the IOC in 1952. He became senior vice-president in 1968, and succeeded Avery Brundage, becoming President elect at the 73rd IOC Session (21–24 August) held in Munich prior to the 1972 Summer Olympics. He took office soon after the Games…
Brundage in 1964
Brundage (left) and other Olympic officials on board and with the captain of the SS Bremen, en route to the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Nazi Germany
Julius Lippert, Avery Brundage and Theodor Lewald, organizer of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
Brundage addresses the media at the London Olympics, 1948.