Jarmila Kratochvílová: The regime cannot be forgiven for boycotting the Olympics

Posted On: August 1, 2022

IN TODAY’S EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN, INCLUDING:

World record from Munich (1:50)
Controversy around South African Semenya (9:50 am)
Sausage for breakfast (12:19)
Extreme training session at four in the morning (19:01)
Boycott the Olympics in Los Angeles (34:45)
From competitor to coach (41:50)

“I’ve learned to live by that record. I was afraid someone would beat it for decades, and I often had a stopwatch in my hand on TV,” the world record holder said on the Dobojováno podcast.

The native Golčov Jeníkov tells about the dose of extreme training prescribed by coach Miroslav Kváč. “I woke up at four in the morning and went to practice, then I usually went to work,” recalls Kratochvílová.

In the podcast, the world record holder also talks about the boycott of the 1984 Olympics, which, like many other Czechoslovak athletes, he did not follow due to the political decisions of the then regime. “I think that’s inexcusable,” he said.

Would Semenya South Africa break the world record if not for a rule change? How did he experience the fee race as a coach? And why has he never swapped meat and sausage for a “healthy” diet? He talked about all of this in today’s episode, which he watch the video or play it in the audio player at the beginning of the article. (Interview takes place before the end of this year’s World Athletics Championships in the United States)

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