There were no Finnish delegates at the inaugural congress of the International Olympic Committee in Paris 1894, nor did any Finnish athletes participate in the first three editions of the modern Olympic Games in Athens 1896, Paris 1900 and Saint Louis 1904. Competitive sports were only beginning in Finland at that time, and Russian authorities treated all organised citizen activities in the country with suspicion.

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