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Zatopek: When You Can’t Keep Going, Go Faster!
Engrossing story of top athlete dubbed ‘the Czech locomotive’
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JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
MICK McSHANE rubs shoulders with Mod legend Steve Craddock and joins in with the joyous Glasgow choir
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CZECHOSLOVAK athlete Emil Zatopek enjoyed an impressive career as a long-distance runner during the 1940s and ’50s.
He became a national hero and represented his country as a star athlete at the Olympics and various other international championships.
Nicknamed the “Czech Locomotive,” Zatopek is still the only runner in history to have won three gold medals across three long-distance races at the same Olympic games, accomplishing this unique feat at the 1952 Helsinki summer games.
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