SPRAWLING LIMBS.
Nurmi Is Caustic About Women Athletes. —_ | Press Association —Copyright. ! (Received 10.30 a.m. To-day). Helingfors, December S. Bitter comments by Paavo Nurmi, the famous runner, on women Olympic athletes, are published in the ‘ Russian emigrant paper, Sagodnya. I “There are certain women's con- / tests which should definitely not be I allowed at the Games,’’ says Nurmi. “I simply cannot bear to watch a female contorting her body in the javelin contest, convulsing features and gritting her teeth in a race, or attempting to clear 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 won derful performances of the Dutch swimmers. Such contests do not prevent women from remaining ladies."
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 305, 9 December 1936, Page 5
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144SPRAWLING LIMBS. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 305, 9 December 1936, Page 5
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