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Olympic Stories as depicted on Stamps
Greatest Olympic Long Distance Runner
Paavo Nurmi of Finland, participant
at three Olympics (1920,
1924 and 1928), won in all nine gold and three silver medals and was
considered the greatest long-distance runner of the twenties. After his
death he was commemorated by the Finnish postal authorities with the
issue of a stamp whose subject takes sports lovers back in time to the
height of his victories. The stamp designer, P. Huovinen, reproduced the
famous sculpture by V. Aaltonen which was placed near the Olympic
stadium in Helsinki. It showed this great runner rushing forward with a
stopwatch clenched in his fist.
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Olympic stamp Kaleidoscope
On the occasion of 2008 Olympic Fiji released these four stamps
Olympic Stories Lot-3
- Statue of Pentathlete
- Olympic Music
- Misha - the Mascot
- Nadia Komaneci
- First Olympic Swimmer
- Fencing Hero of Cuba
- Paavo Nurmi
- Olympic Wrestling
- Olympic Walking Race
- Olympic Long Jump
- Jesse Owens
- 1st Winter Oly Winner
- Laszlo Papp-the Boxer
- Bob Mathias
Recent Updates
[31/08/2008] modified version of an ancient Red Indian ball game called 'Baggataway' More…
[27/08/2008] Glima, the Icelandic national wrestling, a display of which was included in the Stockholm Olympics in 1912 More…
[26/08/2008] Unique feature of 2008 Olympic stamps of Australia More…
