The Heroine of the Week Is Věra Čáslavská
- 09. 10. 2020
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Gymnast, trainer and sports emissary, who is still the most successful gymnast of all time. She won three gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Four years later, at the Olympics in Mexico City, she added four more gold and two silver medals. At the awards ceremony she voiced her condemnation of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, she became an advisor to President Václav Havel.
Věra Čáslavská © Petra Horáková
Project: Czech Heroines
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