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Eva Vrabcová & ndash; Nyvltova, leading woman of the Czech team, has decided to take a break from skiing and to focus on & rsquo; athletics.
Friday 29 April 2016 2 minutes reading time
The 30 year old Trutnov has effectively missed the entire last season to train for the marathon. L & rsquo; goal & egrave; ambitious: to participate in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, scheduled for next August. To center sar & agrave; at the start of the Prague Marathon on May 8. The minimum limit set by the Czech federation & egrave; 2 hours and 38 minutes.
For you will not be & agrave; easy, because up to now not & egrave; never pushed beyond the 33 Km, while the marathon, as is known, measuring 42,195 km, but will have & agrave; at his side a & rsquo; d & rsquo coach; except, that Jarmila KratochvÃlová in 1983 did mark the world record tutt & rsquo; now unbeaten in the 800-meter dash.
If Vrabcová & ndash; Nyvltova, that Sochi 2014 came fifth in the 30 km, could qualify for Rio, it would become the second woman in the Czech Republic is able to participate in the Winter Olympics that summer ones. Before her we managed & igrave; Kateřina Neumannová, champions of cross country skiing, sports in which Contracting authority memorize options 6 medals (1 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze) at the Winter Games, but also the protagonist to summer: Atlanta 1996 came eighteenth in the mountain bike race won by Paola Pezzo.
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