For the most important athletics competitions in the world are held the Olympic games.
These are carried out in four
in four years in different countries who apply to be the organizers.
8 ° Olympics - Paris 1924.
In these games the French organizers were perfect and source of pride for the old Coubertin, thus contributing
for another step forward in the assertion of the games.
The Americans appeared ready to beat the Finns and became convinced that they were not decadent.
Were better
organized bypassing the problems generated in previous Olympics.
Garnered public sympathy when a fire
concentration in offered to help firefighters and cotizaram to help the widow of a victim of the accident.
The
French reciprocated the Americans with one of the biggest ovations ever heard at a sporting event.
The hero of these games was the Finn Paavo Nurmi which received the unanimous vote of the entire international press.
Nurmi
won the 1,500 m, 5,000 m, 10,000 m, this all in one day in the space of two hours between each.
Proof of 10,000,
under a merciless sun was contested by 30 athletes.
Nurmi and only reached 15 was the first two minutes ahead of the second
placed.
No wonder they made him a statue outside the stadium Helsinki.
Source: Athletics
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