If you looked closely at the athletes of the Czech Republic as they took to the Olympic track in Rio, you may have noticed a little squiggle on their kit. It was a cartoon self-portrait that used to ...

When the world’s leading marathon runners bid to win Olympic gold on Sunday, they would do well to draw inspiration from one of the greatest athletes in the history of track and field. The ...

Zatopek sprints to 5,000m gold in Helsinki from Alain Mimoun (France) and Herbert Schade (Germany) with Britain's Chris Chataway falling on the final bend. He also won the 10,000m and marathon -- a ...

I’d only known the name Emil Zatopek vaguely: As the Czech Olympic distance runner, the Olympic gold medalist, one of the greats. The skinny, Cold War-era marathoner that Runners World named in 2013, ...

In 1952, the Summer Olympics took place at the height of the Cold War in Helsinki, Finland. Czechoslovak army officer Emil Zatopek achieved a unique feat in athletics by winning gold in the 5,000m, 10 ...