Edgar Lindenau Aabye (14 September 1865 – 30 April 1941) was a Danish athlete and journalist who earned a gold medal in the

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at the age of 34 in the

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, after joining the team as a last-minute substitute. Aabye was an accomplished athlete who had previously won a Danish championship in swimming (1896) and been a competitor in rowing and cycling. Aabye joined the team which then competed in the only tug-of-war contest, defeating the French team for the gold medal. Initially, Aabye was not a member of the tug-of-war team but was working at the Paris Olympics as a journalist for the ''

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'' newspaper. When a member of the combined Dano- Swedish

team was injured, the team asked Aabye to fill in as a last-minute substitute. He was the nation's first sports journalist as he worked for the broadsheet ''

'' from 1892 until 1935. He had previously studied

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and taught

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and

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at a middle school.

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