“WOMEN WRESTLERS AN AWFUL SIGHT”
NURMI ATTACKS FEMININE
ATHLETICS
(Received 1 p.m.)
HELSINGFORS, December 3
Bitter comment by Paavo Nurmi on women athletes at the Olympic Games are published in the Russian immigrant paper “Segodnya.”
“There are certain women’s contests which should definitely not be allowed at the Games,” he said. “I simply cannot bear to watch a female contorting her body in the javelin contest, convulsmg her features and gritting her teeth in a race, and attempting to clear the bar in the high jump with sprawling limbs.
“Such events 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. I admired the wonderful performances of the Dutch swimmers. Such contests do not prevent women from remaining ladies.”
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Northern Advocate, 9 December 1936, Page 6
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