Paavo Nurmi

They astonished us by going where no athlete had gone before, boldly surmounting the hurdles, both literal and metaphorical

Lewis is a great athlete, but his insatiable desire to win an unprecedented 10 gold medals tainted his accomplishments.DEBBIE LINGLE, COLUMBIA, MO.

UpsetBy Shannon Miller and a Byzantine scoring system at the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials in Baltimore, reigning world champion Kim Zmeskal. The preliminary selection for the women's Olympic team was made using...

Though I own nothing comparable to Paavo Nurmi's gilded spiked running shoes, which are enshrined in a glass case in Helsinki's Suomen Urheilumuseo (Sports Museum of Finland), I do have a collection of vintage...