Max Pearson
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
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Peter sort of struggled and eventually pulled out.
So Emil and Janssen go ahead.
At times, he had probably found it easy.
You can see sometimes in the footage, he's joking and laughing with the photographers and the press coach just ahead.
But later on, he started to get very tired and eventually he was on his own.
Finally, he gets to the stadium.
As he's going into the stadium, all his rivals from the previous races are lining the roadside, cheering him on, because that's the way everyone felt about him.
And then when he comes into the stadium, it was basically all 70,000 people in the stadium were just shouting, Zato Pek, Zato Pek, Zato Pek.
Finally, he smiles as he crosses the line, very rapidly recovers, waits for his rivals to come in, congratulates them all, offers them oranges and things like that.
Just a wonderful, uplifting Olympic moment.
The Helsinki Olympics made Zatopek a hero in Czechoslovakia, but he was later blacklisted by the communist regime for supporting the Prague Spring reformers, and he died in 2000 without his reputation at home being completely restored.
But in the world of sport, his triple gold in Olympic distance running has never been equalled.
By travelling, by meeting, by this friendship is greater than the victory.
Unified all the world.
Sportsmen are like brothers.
The achievements of Emil Zatopek, whose biographer Richard Asquith was talking to Simon Watts in 2016.
Finally this week, we're going to Spain in 1981, for the moment when the country's fledgling democratic government appeared to be under threat.
350 politicians were taken hostage in the National Parliamentary Chamber in Madrid during a coup attempt by armed civil guards.
Amongst those held was Joaquim Almunia.
He spoke to Claire Bowes in 2021.
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