Word: gg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After his U.S. debut three weeks ago, Sweden's wraithlike Gunder Hägg stood at a microphone and told his countrymen he was sorry that Arne Andersson had not come along with him. Andersson, a 27-year-old Gothenburg schoolteacher, had set the pace for Hägg in most of his seven world's record runs, had always finished a shadow length behind...
Last week, on the eve of his second U.S. appearance, Gunder Hägg was doubly sorry his shadow had stayed home. In the National Swedish Festival track meet at Gothenburg, just a year to the day after Hägg broke the world's mile record, Andersson beat it by two full seconds with a 4:02.6 mile...
Like Babe Ruth, gaunt and gainly Gunder Hägg has become popular with Swedish newsmen because of his ability to call his shots in advance. Last summer, during a track meet in Stockholm's Stadion, he announced that he would break the world's record for the mile the next...
...summer before, after being suspended from amateur competition for ten months (because he was unable to account to the Swedish Athletic Union for about $4 worth of listed travel expenses), Hägg retired to the hills of his native Jaemtland, vowed that he would be back to avenge that disgrace. Two days after his suspension was lifted he cracked the mile record, 48 hours later the twomile. Gunder Hägg's latest prediction: he will some day run a mile in four minutes flat, thinks California is the place where he might...
...Amateur Athletic Union, eager to have Hägg match strides with Super-Runner Gregory Rice in the national outdoor championships in New York City June 19-20, finally got him priority to cross the Atlantic by plane. But last week, on the eve of his scheduled departure, a Stockholm news despatch cryptically announced that Gunder Hägg had left for the U.S. on a Swedish tanker...