Today We Die a Little The Inimitable Emil Zátopek the Greatest Olympic Runner of All Time 1st Edition Richard Askwith

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1568585497
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1568585499
• Author: Richard Askwith

“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 Zápek

For a decade after the Second World War, Emil Zápek — “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. Zápek 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. Zápek 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 Zápkovájournalist 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.

Table of contents:

1. ‘Zá-to-pek! Zá-to-pek!’

2. The Kopřivnice kid

3. Shoemaking

4. The soldier

5. Beginnings

6. The lights come on again

7. Love and death

8. The Czech locomotive

9. Mission: invincible

10. Fairy-tale Pete

11. The longest day

12. The people’s champion

13. ‘Today we die a little’

14. The ambassador

15. Spring fever

16. Disgrace

17. Exile

18. In the drawer

19. ‘Say it ain’t so, Emil’

20. The last lap

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