WOMEN ATHLETES
NURMI’S CRITICISM. Received December 9, 11.35 a.ni. HELSINGFORS, Dec. 8. Bitter comments by Paavo Nurmi oil women Olympic athletes are published in the .Russian emigrant paper, Segodya. “There are certain women’s contests which should definitely not be allowed a.t the Games. 1 simply cannot l>ear to watch a female contorting her body in the javelin contest; convulsing her features and gritting her teeth in a race; attempting to clear the high jump with sprawling limbs. Such event/, should be forbidden. But these displays are nothing to the awful sight of two of the fair sex engaged in a wrestling bout. “I am not opposed to all women’s Olympic events. 1 admired the wonderful performances of the Dutch swimmere ; such contests do not prevent women from remaining ladies.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 9, 9 December 1936, Page 10
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