There's a little bit of extra context there. A Swedish led committee prevented Paavo Nurmi from entering the 1932 olympics, on what people, then and now, regar

There's a little bit of extra context there. A Swedish led committee prevented Paavo Nurmi from entering the 1932 olympics, on what people, then and now, regard as trumped up charges. (Nurmi had won nine gold medals in the previous three olympics) The affair was dragged out over many months, with the committee constantly ignoring the usual way these things were handled, and the final appeal denial happening at the olympics with Nurmi there to compete. Finland was mad! They cut off all sporting cooperation with Sweden. And as this prank shows, they have never really forgotten it. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kONFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EL4MAAAAIBAJ&pg=3666,6782915&dq=nurmi&hl=en https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kONFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EL4M...