Hang up your running shoes
Jon Day: Emil Zatopek, 6 October 2016
Today We Die a Little: The Rise and Fall of Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend
by Richard Askwith.
Yellow Jersey, 480 pp., £16.99, April 2016,978 0 224 10034 2 Show More
by Richard Askwith.
Yellow Jersey, 480 pp., £16.99, April 2016,
Endurance: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zatopek
by Rick Broadbent.
Wisden, 320 pp., £16.99, April 2016,978 1 4729 2022 5 Show More
by Rick Broadbent.
Wisden, 320 pp., £16.99, April 2016,
“... runs he used to chat to his competitors, which some took for friendliness, others arrogance. Both Richard Askwith and Rick Broadbent have gone through the archives and spoken to those who knew Zátopek – particularly his wife, Dana, an Olympic gold-medal-winning javelin thrower – in order to tell his story in unprecedented detail. Zátopek was born ... ”
