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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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CZECHOSLOVAK athlete Emil Zatopek enjoyed an impressive career as a long-distance runner during the 1940s and ’50s.
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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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