How did the Czechs do at the Olympic games? / Jak si Cesi vedou na Pekingske Olympiade?

Currently the big news in Peking Olympics is that the Czech decathlon star Roman Sebrle did not win a golden medal this year – he ended up on the 6th place. The first place for the next 4 years belongs to a 28-year-old Bryan Clay from Texas. Roman suffered a lot of injuries during the training this year and that retarded his physical abilities during the Olympics; as he summarizes it “It was just a bad season this year, that’s all..”. How are the other memebers of the Czech team doing? The most recent gold medal was won by Barbora Spotakova in women’s javelin throw. Since she beat the Russian athlete on the 21st of August, Barbora says that the victory is extra-special to her because she had won it on the 40th anniversary of the Russian Invasion in 1968.

The other 2 golden medals were won in 2 consecutive days by the former model Katerina Emmons for air-gun shooting and next by David Kostelecky in trap shooting.

So so far the Czechs have won 3 golden medals – not bad, right??!!

CZ: Posledni aktualni informace z Pekingskych Olympickych her je, ze ocekavana zlata medajle od Romana Sebrleho v desetiboji se bohuzel nedostavila – skoncil totiz na 6. miste. Vitezem se tento rok (a take na nastavajici 4 roky) stal 28-mi lety Texasan Bryan Clay. Roman bohuzel utrpel mnoho zraneni pri letosnich pripravach na Olympiadu, coz mu znemoznilo dat ty nejlepsi vykony. Jak sam Roman konstatuje, ” Byla to proste podelana sezona; tot vse.”. A jak si vedou dalsi clenove naseho ceskeho tymu? Posledni zlatou medajli ziskala Barbora Spotakova, a to za hod ostepem. Porazila tak svou ruskou souperku 21.srpna – tedy na 40. vyroci ruske okupace v roce 1968 – a jak Bara sama rika, vitezstvi je pro ni timto zpusobem dokonce i sladsi. Dalsi dve medaile byly vyhany hned za sebou; prvni vyhrala ex-modelka, rodacka z Plzne, Katerina Emmonsova za strelbu ze vzduchovky a hned pristi den ji vyhral take David Kostelecky v trap-strileni. Tak zatim mame 3 zlate medaile – to neni spatne, co?

Source:

http://www.sportovninoviny.cz/olympiada/cesky_tym/index_view.php?id=329573

http://www.abcprague.com/2008/08/11/peking-olympic-games-czechs-have-2-medals-already