“Great is the victory, but the friendship is all the greater.”

1. “Great is the victory, but the friendship is all the greater.” Emil Zátopek Summer 1952. Summer Olympics in Helsinki, runners of all countries around the world gather at the starting line for marathon. Among them, Czech athlete, Emil Zátopek is waiting for the signal to start. His last minute decision to complete the first marathon run in his life has won him the third golden medal in the Olympics, the hearts of the spectators and eternal fame. The “Czech Locomotive” was the first athlete to break the hour for running 20 km and only three years later the 29-minute barrier in the 10 km run. Born in Kopřivnice, Czechoslovakia on 19 September 1922, he started working at the age of 16 in a Bata shoe factory in Zlin. Zátopek says that "One day, the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination, and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started, I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.” After that point, he joined the local athletic club, where he developed his own training program, modelled on what he had read about the great FinnishOlympian Paavo Nurmi. In 1944 Emil broke Czechoslovak records in long-distance running and in the next year he joined the Czechoslovak Army under which he became a member of the Czechoslovak national team, starting his top athletic performance in 1946 at European Championships and crowning his career by winning his one silver and four gold medals at 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games and one bronze and three gold medals at European Athletics Championships in 1950 and 1954, he finished abruptly just after defending his marathon gold medal in 1956 due to a groin injury while training, from which he never fully recovered. He retired from competition in 1957. His wife, Dana Zátopková (born as on the same day as her husband, née Ingrová), was a remarkable athlete herself in the field of javelin throwing. Always supporting her husband, she was an Olympic medal winner, too. Having rather difficult life after 1968 Prague Spring due to his political history, Emil was fully rehabilitated only in 1990 by Václav Havel. Zátopek died in Prague in 2000 at the age of 78, after a long illness. source: en.Wikipedia.org

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