Max Pearson
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1,342 appearances
10 recordings
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
Max Pearson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Although the Soviet group of countries joined in the Games, they lived apart from everyone else, concentrated in their own camp.
As a condition for entering the Games, Stalin had demanded that all communist countries be housed in a separate Olympic village.
These really were meant to be the Cold War Olympics.
And then there were armed guards and barbed wire.
And the idea was that it had nothing to do with one another.
But in fact, fairly soon, Percy Serity, he goes around and talks to Emil.
Like everyone else, he finds that Emil is terribly generous about his training regime.
He tells all his secrets to anyone who asks.
And Serity just stays and stays and stays and asks question after question after question.
Eventually, it's so late that the gates have been shut and it's too late to go back.
So Emil says, well, have my bed and gives him his bed and goes off and sleeps in the woods.
Can you imagine someone doing that a couple of nights before an Olympic final?
I mean, it's just crazy generosity.
But he had this sort of deep, deep, almost religious belief of the duty of hospitality.
The real problem race for him was the 5,000 metres, where it was a terribly strong field.
People were talking about it going to be the race of the century.
And so you have this very, very tense race going on for the first 11.5 laps, and then they come up to Bell, and he's just at the Bell, and he's in position, and off he goes, and this is what he's been working towards for four years.
And he's halfway around the first bend on this final lap, and then the other runners start to overtake him, and...
He's coming fourth.
You can see the despair on his face as the other three are stretching away.
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