Yoga, sauna and beauty made Paavo Nurme's dope last, even in Paris, a hundred years ago – the fifth gold was secured when the teammate scored consciousness across borders

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Yoga, sauna and beauty made Paavo Nurme's dope last, even in Paris, a hundred years ago – the fifth gold was secured when the teammate scored consciousness across borders

One hundred years ago Paavo Nurmi prepared for the Olympic Games in Paris, from which he returned home to Turku as a five-time gold medalist. Nurmi was a determined and uncompromising personality who was ahead of his time in training. Did he have any idea what success he would achieve in Paris in July 1924? Scroll through the pages of TS from a hundred years ago at the end of the story.