A year ago, immediately after the competition, he thought the matter was small, but the opposite happened. “Last year, after Tretra, I left the stadium with a torn groin, so… Now I’m probably in the best health I’ve been in years. I knocked, that’s great,” he said, tapping his teeth in a sign of a positive finding. .

Otherwise, it was mainly a struggle for him today. From the first attempt, he struggled with start-up and technique. “Sometimes it’s like that, javelin. If the javelin is not felt, it cannot fight with the technique change. During the race, try to do something, but if there is no feeling, like a door. deaf. You hit, hit, and nothing out of it,” he said.

He gradually improved until the fourth series. “The first three runs didn’t work out for me at all, I gradually started to improve. I wanted to add a few more meters, but I couldn’t do it anymore,” he admits.

The javelin is a highly technical discipline where detail counts for many yards. “Ninety meters becomes eighty very easily and vice versa,” said Vadlejch. Even world champion Anderson Peters of Grenada this time did not reach more than 90 meters, 87.88 from the first series was enough for him to win. “You can see that he struggles with it, he even has a pitch under 80 metres,” the Olympic silver medalist said in his remarks.

Along with another Czech javelin hero from Tokyo, Vítězslav Vesel, they rode down the track in a convertible during the opening ceremony. “That’s good, good,” he praised.

Then he pitched under a full section of the stands, where passionate Italian high pitcher Gianmarco Tamberi entertained the crowd at the same time as the javelin competition. “He does a lot. He can really excite people and we took that from him,” Vadlejch praised the Olympic champion’s performance. “The fans made our show. That they are here and they are close… I am very happy that they are back,” added the Czech’s current best javelin, who will show himself to the fans at the Josef Odložil Memorial in Prague in six days.