Word: paavo
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...Olympic history, taking gold medals in both the 200m butterfly and the 4x200m freestyle relay. He now has five gold meals in these Olympics, and 11 in his career, moving past Mark Spitz, U.S. track and field legend Carl Lewis, ex-Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina, and Finish distance runner Paavo Nurmi for the all-time record. In the end, "The Flying Finn" was struck from the book by a guy with fins...
...charges of inciting the leaking of classified memos on Iraq to bolster her election campaign last year ended after three days, with a verdict expected within two weeks. Prosecutors alleged that Jäätteenmäki used secret documents to claim that then Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen had compromised Finland's neutrality by tacitly supporting the war. After narrowly winning the election last March, Jäätteenmäki was forced to resign three months later. On Thin Ice NORTH POLE Russia plucked to safety 12 of its scientists stranded on a disintegrating ice floe 700 km from...
...FIN5 project proceeds rests with Vanhanen's cabinet, and he does not want it. "We must do the sensible thing and look to renewable energy as our final solution," says Vanhanen, who took office in June. (The FIN5 project was approved during former Social Democratic Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen's term.) Vanhanen's cabinet is slated to meet in early 2004 to decide FIN5's fate. A few insiders believe that ASE has a good chance of winning the contract, if only because its technology is a bit cheaper than Western reactors. If it does, then the public might rediscover...
...champion at 1,500 m, feels so good at that distance, he says, that "my goals are to win the 1,500 m and take a medal in the 5,000 m." He'd be the first ever to do the medal double at Worlds, and only "Flying Finn" Paavo Nurmi won both Olympic golds, back in 1924. Why is El Guerrouj trying? "I needed a challenge." Expect more drama in the most glamorous races: the men's and women's 100 m. With defending champion Maurice Greene of the U.S. in a slump, the men's race is wide...
...subdivided, etched ultimately by split thousandths of a second. She'll try to win five gold medals, negotiating an intricate shoal of qualifying heats, medal races, meals, catnaps, jumps and baton passes. Five golds in one Olympics has not been done by a track athlete since the Flying Finn, Paavo Nurmi, blew through Paris in 1924. Weeks before the opening ceremony, Jones is already the story of the Games...