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Skating Races contributed the most brilliant single performance in the history of the Winter Olympic Games, by Norway's Ivar Ballangrud. He won three races (500, 5,000 and 10,000 metres), set world's records in two, finished second to his teammate Charles Mathisen in the 1,500 metre race...
...Miss Henje to give an exhibition, accused her large, red-faced father of demanding an exorbitant amount of money for expenses. Said he: "We flatly refused to become a party to what we believed was a straight hold-up on the part of ... an amateur in sport." ¶ Ivar Ballangrud, 27-year-old Norwegian speedskater: three races (1,500, 5,000, and 10,000 metres) out of four, for the world's championship; at Lake Placid...
...waiting at an eating club, a placard announced his victory. His time-43.4 sec.-equalled the Olympic record. The 5,000-meter race was run off much more slowly in a slight flurry of snow. When Irving Jaffee of New York won, after outmaneuvering the Norwegian champion Ivar Ballangrud, the U. S. team had 29 points, more than its total in the Winter Olympic games of 1924. Next day, Shea won the 1,500-meter race, spurting at the start of the last lap to beat Alex Hurd of Canada. After a protest against U. S. speed-skating rules...
Oscar Nathieson, who 20 years ago was amateur speed-skating champion of the world, established a world's record at Davos, Switzerland, by skating 500 metres in 43 sec. In Davos also, Ballangrud, Norwegian skater, skated 5,000 metres in 8:24½, a world's record...
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