Word: paavo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mile. Last week, on the indoor track of Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Paavo Nurmi of Finland made his first appearance in the U. S. His first event was a mile race. Nurmi, a thin, blond man, wore a jersey of robin's egg blue, trunks of black. In his right hand, he carried the little watch by which he timed his stride. He disdained, at the start, the conventional crouch. Ray (Illinois A. C.) and Hahn (Boston A. A.) both got away from the pistol before him. Through the first lap, while his competitors jostled for position, Nurmi kept...
...When the Finnish runners went to Paris, Paavo took his bathhouse with him. He said he would not be able to run well without it. He even wanted to bring it with him all the way to America...
Coach Mikkola expressed a hope that Nurmi would stay in this country till spring, but he denied that he had any information from Nurmi himself. "I am sure that if Paavo does stay till spring he will come to Harvard, especially since there is a Finnish bathhouse in Quincy...
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...
Seventeenth among the nations (alphabetically), marched the finest athletes of the U. S., 300 strong. Up in the line somewhere strode their most-feared rivals, 60 hardy Finns, among whom the greatest names were Paavo Nurmi (distance runner entered in six races), Willie Ritola (present U. S. distance champion, bearing Finland's colors because of an Olympic ruling), Hannes Kolehmainen (long time a Marathon marvel), Porhola and Torpo (weights...