Word: paavo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret that other track stars have long taken money under the table. But they do their best not to get caught. Once in a while, as in the case of Finland's great Miler Paavo Nurmi, their financial shenanigans have come to light, and resulted in suspensions from amateur competition. In the U.S. the hardheaded high brass of the A.A.U. have cracked down on the few flagrant cases they could hardly overlook. Little has been done, however, to liberalize the main cause of the cheating-the outdated ceiling of $15 a day on athletes' expense accounts...
...Compton (Calif.) Invitation Meet last week, Santee got the competition he needed: Belgium's Gaston Reiff, holder of world records at two miles, 2,000 and 3,000 meters, and Finland's Denis Johansson, his country's national titleholder, who has outrun some of Paavo Nurmi's records...
Carrying aloft the blazing Olympic torch, he circled the 400-meter track, with an easy, familiar stride. From the spectators came a delighted roar of applause for one of the most unforgettable of all Olympians: Finland's Paavo Nurmi, now 55, and in his Olympic days (1920-28) the greatest distance runner in the world. Stopping at the base of the giant urn, Nurmi stretched high to set it ablaze with fire relayed across Europe from Olympia. The 1952 Olympics had begun...
...coached the Finnish Olympic teams in 1920 and 1924, and he was awarded--among many other citations--the Order of the White Rose and the Wilskman Medal. They are the highest athletic medals that the Finnish Government awards. And they are given to only a few. Paavo Nurmi was one of them." And she went on to tell about the small white-headed man who had been an important part of the Harvard scene for over 30 years...
...Finland's Paavo Nurmi...