Olympic National

Olympic National

If you are jealous of great athletes, you will want the real story of marriage of two great Olympic athletes. The dominant athlete the 1968 Olympics was Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia who won 4 gold medals and two silver medals in gymnastics. Just after the Olympic closing ceremony in 1968, she married Joseph Odlizil in 1964, Olympic silver medalist from Czechoslovakia in 1500 meters. Shortly after, they had a child.

Thirty years later, in January 24, 1997, President of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel awarded a pardon to Martin Odložil, the child of the marriage of two of the greatest Olympians. The son of this marriage had been sentenced to four years in prison for killing his father. Four times Olympic Gold Medalist Emil Zatopek, and arguably the greatest distance runner ever, have signed a petition for Martin Odložil release. Emil Zatopek spent part of his life, cleaning the streets of Prague, for criticizing the Soviet Union's invasion Czechoslovakia.

When the rehabilitation of Martin Odlizil, his mother, the greatest Olympic gymnast Vera Caslavska was hospitalized Psychiatric Center Bohnice having been emotionally destroyed by his tragic life. The father is killed by his son born of a marriage of two great athletes Olympic Caslavska began his amazing sporting career in figure skating, but at age 12 turned to gymnastics and placed at the forefront in gymnastics at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, also taking gold medals on beam and vault. In 1965 and 1967 championships the world has won all the gymnastics events. She closed her career at the Olympic Games in Mexico in 1968, winning gold medals in the combined exercises and the uneven bars, floor exercises and vault. She also won a silver medal on beam and shared a team silver.

Apparently Caslavska would retire in glory, but there were difficult times for everybody in Czechoslovakia. The Russians seized Czechoslovakia and made a puppet state. But Vera Caslavska, the great Olympic athlete, and strong will has remained faithful to his homeland. Before his spectacular performance at the 1968 Olympics, she signed the manifesto controversial Ludvik Vaculik, two thousand words. " The framework of the Prague Spring Work critcized the puppet government in Czechoslovakia. In August, Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia to restore order. Citizens eminent who voted, including Vera Caslavska were subject to imprisonment. Fearing such a fate, left the team Caslavska National hide in the small town of Sumperk.

While the Mexico City Games approached, she was able to rejoin his teammates on special government approval Czech. When she arrived home, she learned that her criticism of the Soviet Union would not remain unpunished. She could not find a job, she had two children and her marriage collapsed. Her husband remained faithful to the Russian invaders, and married another woman. Vera Caslavska did not remarry in choosing to take care of her two children from his marriage with the famous Czech distance runner.

On January 3, 1970 a great Olympic champion and the excluded policies, Vera Caslavska applied for a position with the Czechoslovak national team gymnastics. She was informed by the authorities, "Return next year, this is not a suitable time. "For five consecutive years, each January 3, she appeared in the same office, asking for the same work and was told she would find a job if she claimed never to have signed the manifesto against Russia. Caslavska refused. During a visit in 1984, Olympic president Juan Antonio Samaranch has said he could not see because she knew Caslavska "family problems. A year later Samaranch returned and insisted on seeing Vera to submit the Olympic Order. The authorities relented, harbinger of the return Caslavska in public life. Her emotional make the health service has declined and difficult journey, but she lived with her two children, Martin and Radka, Prague.

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