Paavo Nurmi

Here is Jeff McGuire with This Day in Sports History.

Starting in 1928, Paavo Nurmi runs a world record [laughs] 10 miles, 50 minutes, 15 seconds flat.

Man, that's crazy.

That's a five-minute mile for 10 miles.

Yeah, he's like, um-

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... he's the Paavo Nurmi-

Yes

Um, the three [laughs] main stars.

Jamie finally gets to talk about your man, Paavo Nurmi.

Talk to me about Paavo, Jamie.

You love your middle distance runners.

But literally, he's a runner.

Uh, but no, I mean he's obviously, he's one of these names who, like Jim Thorpe, he transcends the Olympics.

I think anybody with any Olympic knowledge knows who Paavo Nurmi is.

Um, and this, and I, I've not written this down anywhere, but if you actually really dig in to Scandinavia at these Olympics, like Norway, Sweden, Finland absolutely killed it at these Olympics.

Another nobody.

This week we're talking about Maila Nurmi, AKA Vampira.

You wanna know if I'll survive.

Get along okay without you.

In the mid-1950s, Vampira rose weekly from her crypt to host a late night scary movie.

By one of the famous television horror hostesses of the time, Vampira.

The question is where is she now? [screams] [sighs] Alyssa, what are five things we need to know about Maila Nurmi?

Number one A [ding], writing this episode, this is like the only episode that when I finished it I fucking sobbed hysterically for like one hour and couldn't sleep.

Just imagine if freeze-negotiating was Fred's book.

If that ever motivates you to go ahead and collect that article, Or any of those other crazy thoughts that come to just say, that would have been this whole series of, let's put Paavo Nurmi in the room with Seb Coe.

See who comes out alive.

The more I hear about Seb, for instance, speaking about when running was young, amazing freaking runner.