Company: Czech Television
Country: CZECH REPUBLIC
Section: OLYMPIC SPIRIT OLYMPIC VALUE
Discipline: Artistic Gymnastics
Year pf production: 2012
Director: Miroslav Kačor
Photography: Ivo Popek
Producer: Pavel Plešak
Time: 52 min
Screening: Thursday 6th December 3.00 pm Sala Torre

Synopsis

Vĕra Růžičková, Maria Durovicova – Kovarova, Miloslava Camkova – Misakova, threen gymnastics of the former Cecoslovakia, meet after a long time to tell the long and hard road to enter in the National team that would take part to the 1948 London Olympic Games. The 1948 Olympic Games were the first after the Second World War and have seen a new generation of athletes coming, including those of Czechoslovakia. For two years, qualifing races have been organised in order to select the gymnastic woman national team, where 126 women took part.