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...perhaps unbelievable but Nurmi, when I first saw him, was no better than those Freshmen", said Coach Jakko Mikkola of the University track team, to a CRIMSON reporter Saturday, as he pointed to a group of first year men struggling around the board track at Soldiers Field against a bitter wind...
Mikkola has been given considerable credit for developing the great Finn, but he modestly makes light of his part in turning Nurmi from an ordinary runner into an Olympic champion. He said, "Nurmi owes much to his persistence and our methods of training which brought out his latent abilities. I coached him from 1918 to 1920, and of course last summer at the Olympics, but by that time he could coach himself...
Sixth Day. The stage was set for two races. Imperturbable Paavo Nurmi (Finland) trotted forth, wiriest of the wiry, hard, slender and supple as a rapier. Carrying a stop watch in his hand to gauge his pace, he first loped 1,500, then 5,000 metres at a speed that broke all his followers' hearts and lungs, save Ritola's, who finished at Nurmi's shoulder in the second race. (Ritola had run 26,000 metres in five days. Nurmi had won twice within two hours...
...metre cross-country grind. The sweltering crowd roared greeting to the 39 who pawed the mark, then settled back to wonder how the 39 could possibly endure such searing heat. Out of the Stadium went the runners, to dusty roads, to sunbaked fields. Half an hour later Nurmi's lithe effortless figure came through the Marathon Gate, followed shortly by the indefatigable Ritola and by Earl Johnson (stalwart U. S. Negro), by a sun-stricken, staggering, vomiting, fainting rabble. Only 15 of the 39 finished. Just outside the Stadium many lay prostrate, nigh dead, in a hollow by some...
...record point total. Clarence Houser's discus hurtled and ten more points were chalked up for the U. S. Four U. S. quarter-milers broke the world's 1,600-metre relay mark and four U. S. sprinters the 400-metre relay mark-20 more points. Nurmi, Ritola and their Finnish friends were not pressed for the 3,000-metre relay...