Nurmi Upset by Women Athletes
CERTAIN CONTESTS SHOULD EE BARRED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. HELSINGFORS, Dec. 8. Bitter comments by Paavo Nurmi on women’s contests at tho Olympic Gaines are published in Russian emigrant paper, “Segodnya.” “There are certain women’s which should definitely not be allowed at the Games,” lie states. “I simply cannot bear to watch a.female contorting her body in a javelin contest, convulsing her features, and gritting her teeth in a race, or attempting to clear a high jump with sprawling limbs. Such, events should be forbidden, but these displays are nothing to the awful sight of two members of the fair sex engaged in a wrestling bout. I am not opposed to all women’s Olympic events. I admired the wonderful performance of the Dutch swimmers. Such contests do not prevent women from remaining ladies.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 292, 10 December 1936, Page 6
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