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Today We Die a Little! (Hardcover)
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Today We Die a Little! (Hardcover)
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"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to enjoy
something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run
a marathon." --Emil Zatopek For a decade after the Second World
War, Emil Zatopek--"the Czech locomotive"--redefined the sport of
distance running, pushing back the frontiers of what was considered
possible. He won five Olympic medals, set eighteen world records,
and went undefeated in the 10,000-metre race for six years. His
dominance has never been equaled. In the darkest days of the Cold
War, he stood for a spirit of generous friendship that transcended
nationality and politics. Zatopek was an energetic supporter of the
Prague Spring in 1968, championing "socialism with a human face" in
Czechoslovakia. But for this he paid a high price. After the
uprising was crushed by Soviet tanks, the hardline Communists had
their revenge. Zatopek was expelled from the army, stripped of his
role in national sport, and condemned to years of hard and
degrading manual labor. Based on extensive research in the Czech
Republic, interviews with people across the world who knew him, and
unprecedented cooperation from his widow, fellow Olympian Dana
Zatopkova, journalist Richard Askwith's book breathes new life into
the man and the myth, uncovering a glorious age of athletics and an
epoch-defining time in world history.
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