The five Olympic gold medals got by the great runner Finnish Paavo Nurmi will return to Paris and be shown in an exhibition next month to commemorate the century of their outstanding achievement in 1924 Paris Games (July 26-August 11)announced this Monday World Athletics.
On the occasion of the Olympic Games. This summer, the medals will be on public display from March 27 to September 22 at the Monnaie in Paris, on the left bank of the Seine River. They will be part of a larger exhibition of Olympic medals entitled ‘D’or, d’argent, de bronze’ (Of gold, silver and bronze), organized by the museum of French Mint.
Nicknamed ‘The Flying Finn’, the middle distance and distance runner was one of the first superstars of sport and the Olympic Games. His five medals are the highest number of golds achieved in athletics at a single Games.
“In the year of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games we celebrate the extraordinary achievements of the flying Finn Paavo Nurmi,” declared the president of World Athletics, Sir Sebastian Coe. “As famous as the Hollywood stars of his time, praised by American presidents, Nurmi was the first truly global sports star,” he added.
World Athletics announced that Nurmi’s grandson Mika Nurmi and four-time Finnish Olympic champion Lasse Virenwho is also a great distance runner, will be the guest of honor at the March 27 ceremony.
Source: La Verdad
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