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...Winter Olympic Games last February amused Lake Placid school children by turning awkward somersaults over jumps and falling down even on the level. Except for Broad-jumper Chuhei Nambu who holds the world's record, Nipponese track athletes did not excel last fortnight except in courage. Schoichiro Takenaka finished the 5,000-metre two laps behind the field in a daze of exhaustion but refused to collapse until he had finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Xth Olympiad | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

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