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	Paavo Nurmi
		Paavo Nurmi (June 13, 1897 - October 2, 1973) was a Finnish runner.
		In 1932, Nurmi was unable to compete at the Olympics, as he had received money for his running and was thus considered a professional.
		Nurmi ended his Olympic career at the 1928 Summer Olympics, winning the 10000 m and two silver medals (5000 m and 3000 m steeplechase).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Paavo_Nurmi.html (271 words)

	PAAVO NURMI FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Paavo Nurmi (June_13, 1897 – October_2, 1973) was a Finnish runner.
		Nurmi was known as one of the "Flying Finns"; a term given to him, Hannes_Kolehmainen, Ville_Ritola and others for their distinction in running.
		A Finnish national hero, Paavo Nurmi was the lighter of the Olympic_Flame at the 1952_Summer_Olympics in Helsinki.
	www.livingflowers.com /en:Paavo_Nurmi (310 words)

	Encyclopedia: Paavo Nurmi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Paavo Nurmi (June 13, 1897 â“ October 2, 1973) was a Finnish runner.
		Paavo Nurmi was born in Turku, and died in Helsinki.
		Nurmi was known as one of the "Flying Finns"; a term given to him, Hannes Kolehmainen, Ville Ritola and others for their distinction in running.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Paavo-Nurmi (2390 words)

	Paavo Nurmi - Wikipedia
		Paavo Nurmi (13 giugno 1897 - 2 ottobre 1973) fu un atleta finlandese.
		Nurmi vinse un totale di nove medaglie d'oro ai Giochi Olimpici, dal 1920 al 1928.
		Nel 1932, Nurmi non fu in grado di competere alle Olimpiadi, poiché aveva ricevuto dei soldi per gareggiare ed era quindi considerato un professionista.
	it.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paavo_Nurmi (376 words)

	Life story - Paavo Nurmi Centennial pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Paavo Nurmi was born on the 13th of July, 1897, at Turku, a port town on the southwestern coast of Finland.
		Nurmi was reduced to the role of a spectator - he could not bring himself to watch the 10 000 metres or the marathon, however.
		After Paavo Nurmi had kindled the flame in the bowl the torch was taken to the tower of the Olympic Stadium, were another flame was lit by another Olympic hero, Hannes Kolehmainen.
	www.urheilumuseo.org /paavonurmi/life.htm (1830 words)

	Paavo Nurmi -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Paavo Nurmi (June 13, 1897 – October 2, 1973) was a (The official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages) Finnish (Device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along) runner.
		Paavo Nurmi was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Turku) Turku, and died in (The capital and largest city of Finland; located in southern Finland; a major port and commercial and cultural center) Helsinki.
		Nurmi won a total of nine gold medals at the (The modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country) Olympic Games from 1920 to 1928.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pa/Paavo_Nurmi.htm (394 words)

	insight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nurmi was born in Turku in 1897 to a carpenter.
		Paavo.s mother.s earnings as a cleaner were inadequate, and he was forced at the early age of twelve to drop his studies and to work for his family.s upkeep.
		Nurmi was drafted to military service in 1919 - 20 and attracted attention by coming first in marches with a rifle and a sand-filled pack by such a wide margin that he was suspected of having strayed from the route.
	www.iitb.ac.in /~insight/issues/2002/vol5iss3/paavo_nurmi.htm (1608 words)

	MSN Encarta - Paavo Nurmi
		Paavo Johannes Nurmi was born in Åbo (Turku).
		He also won the 10,000-meter cross-country race, leading the Finnish squad to a victory in the team category of the event, in which the results of competitors from each country were combined to determine the winning team.
		At the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, Nurmi was given the honor of carrying the Olympic torch into the main stadium during the opening ceremonies.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761586865/Flying_Finn.html (327 words)

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		The son of a carpenter, Nurmi was born in Turku, on Finland's south-west coast, in 1897.
		The Paavo Nurmi foundation was established at a meeting held at the Deaconess Hospital in Helsinki on March 11th, 1968.
		It is thus gratifying to note that the 9th Paavo Nurmi Foundation symposium in 1989 was dedicated to Lipoprotein and the Pathobiology of the Arterial Intima - a topic central to the focus of present cardiovascular research.
	www.paavonurmensaatio.fi /foundation.html (1663 words)

	News release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nurmi had stayed out of the public eye for the past two decades after quitting his racing career.
		Nurmi’s Olympic year 1924 was followed by a long tour of the United States.
		Nurmi set his eyes to the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1932, to crown his career with a victory in the Olympic marathon, as Hannes Kolehmainen, the greatest Finnish long-distance runner to precede Nurmi and Nurmi’s idol, had done in 1920.
	www.hel.fi /english/current/paavonurmi.html (671 words)

	Paavo Nurmi — Virtual Finland
		It was the decade when Paavo Nurmi dominated middle and long distance running, winning a total of nine gold and three silver Olympic medals: three golds and one silver at Antwerp in 1920, five golds at Paris in 1924 and one gold and two silvers at Amsterdam in 1928.
		As an athlete Nurmi was ahead of his time: he trained with a dedication and intensity never previously seen.
		Paavo Johannes Nurmi was born in 1897 in the southwestern Finnish city of Turku.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/paavo.html (386 words)

	MSN Encarta - Paavo Nurmi
		Nurmi, Paavo (1897-1973), Finnish track-and-field athlete, the finest runner in the world in the 1920s.
		Four years later at the 1924 Olympics in Paris, Finnish athletic officials prevented Nurmi from running in the 10,000-meter track race to allow other Finnish runners the chance to win.
		Nurmi was not allowed to compete at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles because international athletic officials ruled he had lost his amateur status due to his acceptance of expense money for training.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761586865/Nurmi_Paavo.html (318 words)

	Great Olympians - biographies - N
		Nurmi did set an official world record of 30.06.2 later on, and that was to last 13 years.
		Nurmi thanked that gold to Heikki Liimatainen, who finished in eighth place despite needing two minutes to cover the final 30 meters, yet another victim of the heat.
		Nurmi always ran with a stopwatch and was very dissapointed when at Amsterdam he fell during the semi final of the steeple-chase and damaged his watch in the water jump.
	users.skynet.be /hermandw/olymp/bionu.htm (371 words)

	Paavo Nurmi - The Flying Finn
		Paavo Johannes Nurmi, born June 13,1897 at Turku, Finland and died seventy-six years later on October 2, 1973 at Helsinki Finland.
		Paavo Nurmi was driven by love of running.
		Paavo Nurmi died at Helsinki on the second of October, 1973.
	www.davidstuff.com /general/paavo.htm (748 words)

	SPORTS: The Little Giant of the Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Paavo Nurmi's range of mastery was unequalled in his time.
		Paavo Nurmi, who died in 1973, is still one of the best-known and most highly-respected Finns of all time.
		Paavo Nurmi attracted yet another huge crowd to Helsinki's Olympic Stadium in August 2000, this time in the role of an opera hero.
	www.publiscan.fi /sp03e-7.htm (860 words)

	Paavo Nurmi Biography / Biography of Paavo Nurmi Biography Biography
		Paavo Nurmi (1897-1973) was one of the greatest distance runners of all time.
		Born on July 13, 1897 in Turku, a port town on the southwest coast of Finland, Nurmi was the son of a carpenter and began running through the Finnish forests when he was nine.
		Nurmi was inspired to become a runner by the incredible performance of Finnish runner, Hannes Kolehmainen, at the 1912 Stockholm.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography-paavo-nurmi/index.html (251 words)

	Paavo Nurmi
		Paavo Nurmi fut un précurseur dans le domaine de l'entraînement.
		Outre son palmarès sportif exceptionnel, Paavo Nurmi était un personnage atypique.
		Paavo Nurmi s'est éteint le 2 octobre 1973, totalement aveugle et presque muet.
	www.volodalen.com /32historique/nurmi.htm (1474 words)

	Paavo Nurmi . October 2 . 1928 . 1920 Summer Olympics . Los Angeles, California . 1952 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born in Turku, Paavo Nurmi June 13, 1897 – October 2, 1973 was a Finland Finnish running runner.
		Nurmi was known as one of the "Flying Finn term Flying Finns"; a term given to him, Hannes Kolehmainen, Ville Ritola and others for their distinction in running.
		During the 1920s, Nurmi was the best middle distance track event middle and long-distance track event long distance runner in the world, setting world records on distances between 1500 m and 20 km.
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Paavo_Nurmi (744 words)

	Paavo Nurmi - History of Athletics
		Considered the greatest runner of the history, Paavo Nurmi, also known as the "Flying Finn", made the name his newly independent nation worldwide known by earning 9 gold and 3 silver Olympic medals in the 20's.
		Paavo was an athlete ahead of his time and trained with a dedication never seen before.
		In his last Olympics, Amsterdan 1928, Paavo won the 10,000 meters and was silver in the 5,000 meters and 3,000 meters steeplechase.
	www.copacabanarunners.net /ihistpaavo.html (291 words)

	The Road to Athens - Olympic Moment 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Case in point: At the 1924 Paris Olympics, Nurmi won the 10,000-meter cross-country race in suffocating 100-degree heat that forced 24 of the 39 starters to collapse after (and in some cases during) the event.
		Nurmi and Ritola ran together until the bell lap (lap 24), when Nurmi bolted ahead for a narrow victory in 30:18.8, an Olympic record.
		Nurmi, who would set 25 world records in all, finally seemed at peace many years later when he was chosen to carry the torch to open the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki.
	www.runnersworld.com /events/roadtoathens/moments/7.html (1035 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		Paavo Nurmi is one of only four athletes to win nine gold medals.
		Nurmi made his first Olympic appearance in 1920 in the 5,000m.
		In 1928, Nurmi completed his Olympic career by winning the 10,000m and earning silver medals in the 5,000m and the steeplechase.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=53102 (248 words)

	Sermon in the worship service for Paavo Nurmi´s celebration week
		In this service, however, we can remember that Paavo Nurmi belongs to that group which in many portions of Scripture is used as an analogy and an example for the Christian person.
		Paavo Nurmi, if anyone, was a living example of this.
		Paavo Nurmi had a tendency to express his thoughts and views very directly.
	www.evl.fi /arkkipiispa/paavoeng.htm (1259 words)

	Stars of Finnish Sport
		Paavo Nurmi, the ‘Silent Finn’ who dominated the world’s running tracks for more than a decade, is the greatest Finnish sports hero and one of the most famous 20th century athletes in the world.
		In 1932, Paavo Nurmi was preparing to crown his career with a victory in the marathon at the Los Angeles Olympics.
		Nurmi nevertheless still made one final appearance in the Olympic arena: he carried the Olympic torch into the stadium at the opening of the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/sportsta.html (2808 words)

	Paavo Nurmi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nurmi ganó un total de nueve medallas de oro en los juegos olímpicos a partir de 1920 a 1928.
		Nurmi terminó su carrera olímpica en las 1928 Olimpiadas del verano, ganando los 10.000 m y dos de plata carrera de obstáculos de las medallas (5000 m y 3000 m).
		Nurmi muerto en 1973 en Helsinki y fue dado un entierro del estado.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/pa/Paavo%20Nurmi.htm (360 words)

	Paavo Nurmi Athletic Facility
		Paavo Nurmi is considered the greatest long distance runner of all time.
		Children under the 18 are not permitted to use the Paavo Nurmi Center, unless accompained with an adult.
		The Paavo Nurmi Gymnasium can also be rented for $35 hr or $600 per day.
	www.finlandia.edu /paavo.html (556 words)

	Olympic Legends: Paavo Nurmi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nurmi took a 30-metre lead in the 1,500, before slowing in the final lap.
		He was born into poverty in the former Finnish capital of Turku in 1897 and forced to quit school at the age of 12 and work as an errand runner.
		Constant rumours that Nurmi was infringing the strict amateurism rules of the day came to nothing until the 1932 Los Angeles Games when he planned to run the only Olympic distance he had never entered, the marathon.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2004/aug/09oly-ath.htm (467 words)

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