Word: czeched
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...there are defections in Atlanta, they will not involve midnight scrambles over barbed wire or high-speed chases. They will, in fact, probably be like the first Olympian defection, at the 1948 Games in London, when Marie Provaznikova, leader of the Czech women's contingent, simply refused to return to Czechoslovakia. The drama will be in the number of Cubans or the names. Is it possible that Felix Savon, the great heavyweight boxer, or a flame-throwing pitcher named Omar Luis or even Linares might bolt before receiving his gold medal? "Anything is possible," says El Gordo. "Something will happen...
...Russia's 1992 Olympic champion Maksim Tarasov, 25. Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor, 28, the only man ever to clear 8 ft., is a solid favorite if his knee holds up; British triple jumper Jonathan Edwards, 30, is the first man to hop, skip and jump 60 ft.; and Czech javelin thrower Jan Zelezny, 30, had 21 of last year's 22 longest throws. Barring the kind of bad luck that kept him off the U.S. team for Barcelona, decathlete Dan O'Brien, who turns 30 the day before the opening ceremonies, will get his overdue gold. Jackie Joyner-Kersee...
Emil Zatopek, the great Czech distance runner, once said, "The Olympics are the one true time." The passage isn't measured in seconds or minutes or days or even the fortnight in which the Games are held. The one true time is the length of the dream, the years of training and striving for just the chance at a gold medal. So while we remember gold medalists like Zatopek, we shouldn't forget the men and women who pushed them to greatness. In the past year, photographer David Burnett has staked out various events for Olympic hopefuls in order...
...Jarosek, 71, belongs to the third generation of a Czech-American family to farm in the Taylor area, near Austin. In February he sold some of his small herd of cattle, which consisted of "45 mamas," as he puts it, for 65 [cents] a pound. A few weeks ago, he sold more for 29 [cents] a pound and then another few for 20'. He has 20 "mama cows" and little money left to buy feed. "This may be my last year," he says...
Taku said the family has already been contacted by friends in the Czech Republic and students at Harvard whom they have never...