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Brundage may have been better-known

as an art collector than for his sports


activities, and "there are those who
maintain that he will be remembered not
for his career in sports but for his jades
and bronzes."[170] Andrew Leigh, a
Member of the Australian House of
Representatives, criticizes Brundage for
expelling the two athletes in Mexico
City, calling him "a man who'd had no
difficulty with the Nazi salute being used
in the 1936 Olympics".[171] Dick
Pound believes Brundage to have been
one of the IOC's great presidents, along
with de Coubertin and Samaranch, but
concedes that by the end of his term,
Brundage was out of touch with the
world of sports. While Pound credits
Brundage with holding the Olympic
movement together in a period when it
was beset by many challenges, he
notes that this might not be fully
appreciated by those who remember
Brundage for the final years of his term,
and for Munich.[172]
Alfred Senn suggests that Brundage
remained too long as IOC president:
After Munich, Brundage departed the
Games, 

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