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My recollection was that Paulen was Belgian, but Dutch means I was close. They named a big meet after him after he died, didn't they? Where is that? Ivo van Damme (the Van Damme meet named after the 800m runner) is Belgian, so I guess the Paulen meet must be in the Netherlands.
Paulen was Dutch.
At Munich, the head of the IAAF was The Marquis of Exiter (Lord Burghley), 400 m champ in 1932. Paulen succeeded him, I believe, and was in turn succeeded by Nebiolo.
Although Paulen didn't have the racist reputation of Avery Brundage (Brundage was IOC head in '72 while Paulen was IAAF head- I think Paulen moved up to take Brundage's place not too long after '72, right?, anyway- Paulen was stilled viewed as the typical amateur athletics bureucrat who was stodgy, upper crust elitist, set in his ways, and extremely stubborn.
Germany fielded a joint team in '60. They had separate teams in '72 and I think in '68. Not sure about '64.,
Also, I think the first time the Germans were in the Olympics after WWII was 1964, where they fielded a joint team (a very odd pairing considering that it was the height of the cold war- "Dr. Strangelove" time). But after that they split, and had separate teams beginning in '68 (and of course in '72 as well).
Wait a minute- didn't Armin Hary compete in Rome in '60, and wasn't he German?
RT
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