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DIED. EMIL ZATOPEK, 78, four-time Olympic gold medalist and political dissident; after a stroke; in Prague. Zatopek won three of his golds at the Helsinki Games in 1952, in the 5,000 m, the 10,000 m and--having never run one before--the marathon. Nicknamed "the Engine," Zatopek ran up to 100 miles a week, sometimes in place in the bathtub, or with his wife on his shoulders. He was dismissed from the military and reduced to manual labor after standing on anticommunist front lines during the 1968 Prague Spring. He broke 18 world records but once said...
...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...
Probably it is too simple of human beings to want to look in on their own progress quadrennially, hoping to gauge how far they have gone by how fast they can go, as if the breed could hope to improve on Emil Zatopek. He was the beau ideal in 1952, a balding Czech about the size of a parking meter, who ran all day and all night with his shirt peeled up and his tongue rolled down. When Zatopek raced, hearts raced. Whoever his modern descendant might be -- the Moroccan Said Aouita, likely as not -- he will almost certainly...
...Curtain was successfully scaled by the U.S.'s Olympic Hammer-Throw Champion Harold Connolly, 25, who, having shaken free of Red tape, planned this week to marry his true love, Czechoslovakia's Olympic Discus-Throw Champion Olga Filcotova, 24, in Prague. With famed Czech Distance Runner Emil Zatopek as best man, Roman Catholic Connolly, according to a U.S. embassy spokesman, was slated to take his Protestant bride in a civil ceremony (for the Red authorities' benefit), followed by Catholic and Protestant rites...
Ever since famed Czech Distance Runner Emil Zatopek, 34, brashly told an Italian newsman last April that U.S. athletes are the "best in the world" and will win this summer's Olympics in Melbourne, he has not again run or prophesied on the sunnier side of the Iron Curtain. Last week the Czech Ministry of Sports announced that capitalist-praising Zatopek will not compete again until he recovers from a sprained ankle (a fortnight ago, Iron-Man Zatopek ran a poor fifth in a 5,000-meter race in Prague). The mystery, however, was not solved...