Hannes kolehmainen biography of abraham lincoln

He won the shot put gold medal in the Olympics and the pound weight throw in the Olympics.

Finland's Hannes Kolehmainen had won three distance running gold medals in and the world was left to wonder how many more medals he might.

Their appendices spotlight Thorpe, Hannes Kolehmainen, Philip Noel-Baker, Avery Brundage, George Patton and the Russian Olympic Team.

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Racing Past

“You Can’t Out-run a Bullet”. A Century Ago in War-time: How Athletics

Survived and a Swedish Runner Prospered

“Don’t you know, there’s a war on ?” It would be natural to assume that athletics was on hold a century ago. The battle-fronts had been set remorselessly in Flanders fields since , and in April of President Woodrow Wilson won a to-nil vote of confidence from Congress to bring the USA into the conflict. Mere sport was bound to suffer when hundreds of thousands of able-bodied men in uniform were being slaughtered, but the story is rather more complicated than that.

Naturally, track and field competition had been very largely suspended by Great Britain, France and Germany, and by their respective allies, as soon as World War I had begun, but by no means did this remain the same state of affairs until peace was declared in , and other countries were not affected at all – at least through to Scandinavia was the main beneficiary from neutrality, as it would be again in World War II, and athletics activity had continued entirely unabated in the USA until the German submarine attacks on American ships transporting supplies to Europe became too persistent to be ignored in the pursuit

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Prominent members of the US Army National Guard

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^, A Brief Biography of Col. Seth Warner,
^Robert K. Wright Jr., Morris J. MacGregor Jr., U.S. Army Center of Military History, Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution: George Washington, , pages 61–63
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