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Our autumn triple event, 2018
On the customary fourth Sunday in September, we held the club's autumn work party. So many volunteers arrived that, in two hours, they cleaned both…
The 10th Gaston Memorial, 2018
On Saturday 25 August, 56 swimmers, including 17 women, set off from Ústí nad Labem to Děčín in the country's longest swimming race. The course…
Susan’s English Channel
I decided to share the story of my daughter Zuzka Procházková's 2018 English Channel swim from the perspective of her mother, accompanying her on the…
The English Channel there and back — Rosťa Vítek reflects
My Channel project was intended to show everyone who swims what really happens there and what it is like. That was also why I asked…
North Channel — two-way relay CZECH IT!!
We did it! Our team — in swimming order — was Petr Šlajs, Rory Fitzgerald, Zuzana Procházková, Zdeněk Sláma, Jakub Valníček and Pavlína Procházková. We…
No summer break for cold-water swimmers: June’s work party, time trial and campfire
Even in summer, Prague's I. PKO cold-water swimmers train regularly in the cool Vltava, whose temperature has yet to exceed 15°C despite the hot days.…
I. PKO Praha’s Rostislav Vítek prepares for a two-way English Channel swim
TWO-WAY ENGLISH CHANNEL CHALLENGE And now the important question: when does it all begin? My swim window is 2–12 July 2018. During that period I…
Will this teacher swim the English Channel?
She has a lifelong dream: to swim the English Channel between France and England. After four years of planning, teacher Zuzana Procházková, 26, from Hořovice…
4th Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere German Open
Updated 28 May 2018 with Nikola Kopecká's video. In autumn 2017, I asked all our winter swimmers to consider entering the competition in Germany. Held…
Czech Winter Swimming Championships 2018 — freestyle, Brno, 10 February
On Saturday 10 February 2018, 151 swimmers gathered in Brno-Bystrc for the Czech Championships and Czech Winter Swimming Cup. Under race director Michal Moravec and…