Coubertin do St. Louis nepřijel - Příběhy a dramata velkých postav českého a světového sportu – Feldstein Petr (2023)

Why did seven players from Slavia end up with a behavioral penalty during the derby against Sparta? Why did the Princess of Wales forever change the length of the marathon? Which world figure skater had the FBI uncover a planned physical attack on her competitor? How is it possible that tennis player Hedwig Rosenbaum needed just one victory to earn two Olympic medals? Who then set the women's world record in high jump, a woman or a man? How did the Žižkov butcher and sausage maker Franta Nekolný conquer America and become a national hero? Why was it fateful for the Manchester United players that their plane took off an hour late? Which athlete had more beautiful legs than Marilyn Monroe? How is it possible that a relative of Victor Hugo became an Olympic champion in one evening and then immediately performed a piano concert at the famous Royal Albert Hall? How did Lata Brandisová become the first and still the only woman to win the Velká pardubická? ***** Answers to these and other equally interesting questions await readers in forty-two stories from the history of world and Czech sports. Personalities known and now forgotten experience their dramas on these pages, and there are also gems from the beginnings of famous sporting competitions. The book is written by a sports journalist,…