The Czech Republic aims at an Olympic medal and announces athletes to stersund

Czech biathlon teams were presented yesterday during a press conference. '' The goal declared by the federal president VÃ¡clav FiÅ™tÃk is to win the first Olympic medal in history.

Friday 1 November 2013 3 minutes reading time

The best finish ever for an athlete from the Czech Republic in a race to Five circles is the fourth in'' Ivan Masaryk individual Nagano 1998. Curiously, they never arrived even podiums at the time of Czechoslovakia. It is a'' true "curse" since the Central European nation can boast of the beauty of 10 medals at the World Championship (1 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals in the men's field, 2 gold and 1 bronze medal in the women's plus 1 bronze in the medley relay got just a few months ago at the World Cup at home). They are particularly motivated to break the fast the two leaders of the movement, Ondrej Moravec and Gabriela Soukalova. Quest'' last, after the resounding explosion'' in the year 2012 -'' 13, decided to carry out the preparation in view of'' winter along with the men's team. L'' athlete in Jablonec nad Nisou, who today turns 24 years, will be in Pokljuka with men Czechs for the'' last pre-season training camp. The women will be BeitostÃ¸len (Norway)'' from 2 to November 11. OndÅ™ej RybÃ¡Å™ and JindÅ™ich Å ikola, respectively, head coach of the men's and the women's, they also announced the athletes selected for the first stage of the World Cup in Ã–stersund (November 24-December 1). MEN (5) KRUPCIK Tomas (1988) MORAVEC Ondrej (1984) SLESINGR Michal (1983) SOUKUP Jaroslav (1982) VITEK Zdenek (1977) WOMEN (4) LandovÃ¡ Jitka (1990) SOUKALOVA Gabriela (1989) TomeÅ¡ovÃ¡ Barbora (1986) VITKOVA Veronika (1988) Consequently, the female contingent (5 athletes) will not be fully exploited in the Swedish leg, unless you decide to aggregate a woman'' further in the coming weeks. Fully employed instead the chest for men.

Francesco Paone

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