Word: nurmi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paavo Nurmi will probably oppose several University runners when he enters the B. A. A. meet to be held at the Arena on January 31, according to Jackko Mikkola, assistant coach of the track team and Finnish Olympic coach last summer...
...Mikkola said that Nurmi had not yet definitely entered the meet, but that he had received application blanks and would probably send them in the latter part of this week. Last week Coach Mikkola went to New York to urge Nurmi to enter the B. A. A. meet...
...Metres. The track in Madison Square Garden has eleven laps to the mile (approximately 34 laps to the 5,000 metres). Willie Ritola, brother Finn, old rival of Nurmi, took the lead. At his heels came the flying robin's-egg jersey. Lap after lap the two circled, the field after them. Two laps from home Nurmi sprinted, left a gap of 5 yards, widened it to 10, to 15. Gamely Ritola hung on, his face twisted like a mask of torture, but this time Nurmi did not turn to look. Running like a sprinter who, throughout an afternoon...
Significance. Nurmi is 27 -an age at which few runners can race any more, at which none has ever broken records. Nurmi broke two. More than this, he defeated Ray and Ritola - his most potent rivals. More than this, he caused it to appear as if these men - both, beyond a doubt, among the world's swiftest runners - were novices and that he alone ran as a good runner should. Thus did this thin blond Finn alter, for those who watched, the standard by which they had been used to measure the speed of human legs...
...World's outdoor record for mile: 4 min. 10.4 sec., made by Paavo Nurmi...