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Practice of treating certain athletes as non-professional so they are eligible for certain competitions while subsidizing them with illegal payments.

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  • Others thought the IOC president was ending an era of massive hypocrisy, known as "shamateurism," in which state-sponsored professional athletes from Eastern bloc...
  • Pre began a long battle, both with the AAU to finally expose the hypocrisy of "shamateurism," and the arbitrary judgments of then USOC President Avery Brundage, a...
  • But in the second half of the 1920s professional football spread to such an extent that the "amateurs only" conception of the Olympics meant that many of the best players were...
  • To his credit, Samaranch did rid the Games of much of their shamateurism.
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