WOMEN ATHLETES

Evening Star, Issue 22517, 9 December 1936, Page 10

WOMEN ATHLETES

SCATHING COMMENTS NURMI’S VIEWS BN OLYMPIC GAMES Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyrighf HELSINGFORS, December 8. (Received December 9, at 11.85 a.m.| Bitter comments by Paavo on women Olympic athletes are published in the Russian emigrant paper, ‘ Segodnya.’ “ There are certain women’s contests,” he says, “which should definitely not be alliwed at the Games. I simply cannot bear to watchj a female contorting her body in the javelin contest, convulsing her. features and gritting her teeth’in a race, or at« tempting to clear the high jump with sprawling limbs. Such events should bn forbidden; but these displays are nothing to the-awful sight of two of th* fair sex engaged in a wrestling bout, I am not opposed to all women’s 01ym« pie events. 1 admired the wonderful, performances of the Dutch swimmers* Such contests do not prevent womeit from remaining ladies.”