Johan Edman
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Johan Viktor Edman was a Swedish policeman who won a gold medal in the tug of war competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Edman at the 1912 Olympics
Tug of war
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Tug of war is a sport in which two teams compete by pulling on opposite ends of a rope, with the goal of bringing the rope a certain distance in one direction against the force of the opposing team's
Members of the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps competing in France, 3 August 1918
A tug of war between asuras and devas (Angkor Wat, Cambodia)
A tug of war in Japan from "Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga" (Animal-person Caricatures) 12–13th century
Women in a tug of war, at the annual Pushkar Fair, Rajasthan, India