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Quicksilver. The Mercurial Emil Zátopek

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The life and times of Emil Ztopek, often described as the greatest long distance runner in history; winner of four Olympic golds, including the unrepeatable treble of 5000/10000 metres and Marathon in Helsinki 1952. He also set 18 world records, and dominated distance running for a decade.Yet joining the liberalising Prague Spring movement in 1968, suppressed by the Russians, would see him exiled from Prague to work as a labourer, including in a uranium mine (at 46 years of age) for six years. Pat Butcher, who knew Ztopek tells the incredible story.

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Quicksilver. The Mercurial Emil Zátopek, Pat Butcher

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Titel
Quicksilver. The Mercurial Emil Zátopek
Sprache
Englisch
Autor*innen
Pat Butcher
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Einband
Hardcover
ISBN10
0957033222
ISBN13
9780957033221
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The life and times of Emil Ztopek, often described as the greatest long distance runner in history; winner of four Olympic golds, including the unrepeatable treble of 5000/10000 metres and Marathon in Helsinki 1952. He also set 18 world records, and dominated distance running for a decade.Yet joining the liberalising Prague Spring movement in 1968, suppressed by the Russians, would see him exiled from Prague to work as a labourer, including in a uranium mine (at 46 years of age) for six years. Pat Butcher, who knew Ztopek tells the incredible story.