On his way to the U.S. is the world's fastest distance runner: long-legged, hollow-cheeked, 24-year-old Gunder Hägg (rhymes with egg) of Gavle, Sweden.
Not since Finn Paavo Nurmi's memorable visit nearly a generation ago has a European athlete started for the U.S. with a better build-up than Gunder Hägg. Last summer he broke ten world's records at distances ranging from 1,500 to 5,000 meters (slightly over three miles). From sketchy reports U.S. track fans pieced together an extraordinary figure: a fireman by trade, so thin he looks like an inmate of a Jap...
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