IMAGE: Paavo Nurmi lighting the Olympic flame and the image of the first modern Olympic commemorative coin.
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The Summer Games were originally scheduled to be held in Helsinki in 1940, but were cancelled because of war. The first Games after the was went to London in 1948, but then Helsinki was given its turn in 1952.
IMAGE: Paavo Nurmi lighting the Olympic flame and the image of the first modern Olympic commemorative coin.
IMAGE: Paavo Nurmi lighting the Olympic flame and the image of the first modern Olympic commemorative coin.
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