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Atlet Perancis itu mendahului sehingga 200 meter terakhir tetapi pencabarnya dari Finland yang berasal sebandar dengan legenda Paavo Nurmi, memintasnya untuk meraih emas.
Latihan ladang: PaavoYrjola, pemenang acara dekatlon 1928, melakukannya dengan amat unik tetapi berkesan.
Tinggal di sebuah ladang di Finland, Yrjola berlatih bersendirian dan cuma menggunakan papan yang direkanya sendiri untuk tujuan latihan.
In the wake of Kolehmainen's Stockholm successes, the youth of Finland was inspired to take up sports, and this spark of inspiration shone no brighter than in the figure of Paavo Nurmi, whose inspiration was Kolehmainen.
Paavo Nurmi during his Olympic career, burnished his name indelibly into both national & world sports history and is undisputably one of the sporting greats of the twentieth century.
Nurmi captured an outstanding twelve Olympic medals, nine gold and three silver in the three Olympic games between 1920 and 1928 and amassed a total of twenty two world records.
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We agreed on the matter, and I went out to tell the guys that Pinkham had challenged me to a contest.
Paavo Aikala went nuts, goddamn you're not going there, it was agreed with him and Pinkham has confused our names, Aikala and Alitalo.
M: Pity they didn't have the drag lines for Aikala to pull, inverted with the tailfin.
It is not that Finns are better than New Yorkers, Tuula Yrjola says.
Not long ago in Finland, Yrjola was lost in a boat in the middle of a lake in the middle of nowhere when her father, comfortably back on shore, directed her to dry ground on her cellular phone
Praised by Cherie Blair earlier this year for the "fine example" he set Tony when it came to taking time out for the birth of their baby, the family-friendly prime minister of Finland, Paavo Lipponen, is now proposing a big increase in the number of days of paid paternity leave for Finns.
