Word: nambu
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...current Olympic Games have likewise been concerned with learning how to compete rather than winning prizes. Japanese skiers in the Winter Olympic Games last February amused Lake Placid school children by turning awkward somersaults over jumps and falling down even on the level. Except for Broad-jumper Chuhei Nambu who holds the world's record, Nipponese track athletes did not excel last fortnight except in courage. Schoichiro Takenaka finished the 5,000-metre two laps behind the field in a daze of exhaustion but refused to collapse until he had finished...
Broad Jump. A tiny Japanese flag was posted 26 ft., 2½-in. from the takeoff. That was to mark the world's record of Chuhei Nambu, but Nambu could not reach his flag last week. Loud "Banzais" came from a crowd of Japanese sailors in the north grandstand when he got near it with 24 ft., 5¼ in. A tall Negro from the University of Iowa, Edward L. Gordon, got closer and won with 25 ft. ¾ in. It was the first major event that did not set a record...
...Step & Jump. Light on their feet and much given to eccentric motions of the body, the Japanese naturally excel in such oddities as hopping and skipping. Mikio Oda was champion in 1928. Little Chuhei Nambu, taped at the ankles and limping from his exertions in the broad jump, won again last week with a new world's record of 51 ft., 7 in. while Sol ("Happy") Furth, U. S. hopper who crossed the U. S. twice to compete in the Olympics, finished sixth. In Tokyo, street bands played the national anthem "Kimigayo...