Emil Běžec - CDmp3 (Čte Ivan Trojan)

Excerpts from the first comprehensive biography of a sports legend supplemented with documentary recordings. 'Emil Zátopek was at the peak in the 1940s and 1950s, during the Nazis and early communists: in the worst times our country experienced in the 20th century. However, he managed to wrestle a life story from the circumstances that still fascinates the world today. He achieved phenomenal successes, but even more interesting than his records seems to be the journey he took to reach them. By nature, he was an essential worker, an ordinary man. He invented his method of interval training, which rewrote the history of athletics, from A to Z, just as Edison invented the light bulb. Even as the world's number one runner, he was not driven by performance; he ran for joy and infected millions of people with this joy. About a man whose training doses (a marathon every day) no one else would survive, they also wrote: 'He runs like us.' And there was no contradiction: the authenticity with which he fought against himself and his competitors was perceived by people as a universal parable of the human fate. He was not equally successful in all life battles as he was on the racetrack. He did not win his greatest battle against the communist regime, which he began in 1968. But even defeats are part of human stories, including the story of the phenomenal Emil...