On August 20 in 1968, tanks from the Soviet Union rolled into Czechoslovakia and the country woke up to horror and nightmare.

RunCzech has announced it has amended a promotional campaign to commemorate four-time Olympic champion Emil Zátopek due to use of the letter Z, which has become used as a symbol of Russia in their war with Ukraine.

Czech Olympic Committee (COC) President Jiří Kejval has said the organisation is "proud" after the premiere of a film about legendary four-time Olympic gold medallist Emil Zátopek.

The ashes of 1952 Olympic javelin champion Dana Zátopková have been laid to rest alongside her husband Emil Zátopek at a folk park close to St Anne’s Church in Czech town Rožnov pod Radhoštěm.

On December 1, 2006 the French sport newspaper L”Equipe arranged a reunion for the three marathon medallists from the Melbourne Olympic Games on the 50th anniversary of their race.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Heritage Legends Reception that took place in Monaco on Sunday (December 2) evening was, essentially, a devotional event.

The gymnastics career of Vera Caslavska, the seven-time Olympic champion who died this week aged 74, will live on in history. But above and beyond her sporting achievement is the memory of how she effectively ended that career at the 1968 Mexico Games with a podium protest against the Soviet Union, whose forces had invaded her homeland of Czechoslovakia two months earlier.

There’s some banter flying around on social media this week following Sir Steve Redgrave’s tongue-in-cheek assessment of whether, as was suggested to him, he was the greatest Olympian of all time.

A silhouetted image of four-time Olympic champion Emil Zátopek will be depicted on the clothing of the Czech athletes at Rio 2016 while competitors will learn of the legendary runner’s career in the lead-up to the Games, the Czech Olympic Committee (ČOV) has announced.

Prague has been awarded the 2016 International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) Under-23 World Games following a successful bid led by the Emil Foundation, a group set up by the Czech Paralympic Committee in memory of Emil Zatopek, one of the greatest long-distance runners in history.

No sooner had Jade Jones won her taekwondo gold at the European Games last night than she was reflecting upon her growing collection of significant victories – and looking hungrily ahead to the two remaining boxes she needed to tick (world, European) in order to consider herself a “legend of the sport”.