Word: idrottsbladet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stockholm's Dagens Nyheter labeled him an "apostle of hypocrisy," and said that Brundage came from a land where a "top tennis player doesn't go to a tournament for less than $500 to $800 . . . and their university sports are the world's biggest amateur fraud." Idrottsbladet got in a lick: "It took Our Lord 800,000,000 years to create the world of today. How long a time will it take Mr. Brundage to learn to understand it?" (Sweden was mad because its track heroes-Gunder Hägg and Arne Andersson-had been barred from...