Word: paavo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Paavo Nurmi ran two miles in 8:59.6. That, except for Nurmi's indoor record of 8:58.2, made on a board track at Madison Square Garden in 1925, is the fastest time ever recorded for a human runner over the distance. Track coaches have generally considered it, of all existing marks, the least susceptible to improvement...
...Frenchman was accused of biting an Englishman. In 1928, in Amsterdam, the French refused to march in the opening parade, England withdrew its football team, and referees' decisions aroused even more dissension than usual. The 1932 games in Los Angeles were relatively amiable. Finland threatened to withdraw when Paavo Nurmi was declared a professional. Italy and Japan are currently bickering about whether the 1940 Olympics should be held in Rome or Tokyo...
Seeking Divorce. From Paavo Nurmi, 36, famed Finnish runner: Sylvi Laaksonen Nurmi, his wife since May 1932. In Turku, Finland, Nurmi's birthplace, Mrs. Nurmi told reporters that he broke promises to give up the track, neglected his family to keep in training, complained that his year-old son's feet were too small for him to become a great runner...
Javelin Throw. The Finns, who since 1912 used to win all the distance races at the Olympics, did poorly this year, with pale Paavo Nurmi sitting in the grandstand. Three Finns who were particularly disappointed were the Jarvinen brothers, Matti, Karlo Werner and Akilles. They had often heard stories about the 1906 Olympics from their father, Werner Jarvinen, who won the Greek style discus throw that year at Athens. Matti Jarvinen, spectacled sporting-goods clerk of Davaro, won Finland its first event last week with another implement that old Werner Jarvinen had shown him how to handle. He threw...
...Training at Los Angeles while he waited to see whether the International Federation would restore his amateur standing at the last minute so that he could compete with fellow Finns, pallid Paavo Nurmi hurt his leg. Dr. Paul Martin, Swiss middle distance star, pronounced it a pulled tendon, ordered complete rest for Nurmi...