1. Ice Hockey

2. The end of 19th century – Austro-Hungarian Empire:
„A way in which Czechs could beat their Austrian masters in public“ Tomáš Čechtický
1908 – member of IIHF
January 1909 – national hockey federation
1909 – the first time Czechs won the European Championship

3. 1938 – World Championship in Prague:
- Czechs crushed Germany 3:0 in the fight for the bronze medal
- „Those hockey sticks can be transformed into rifles“ Jaroslav Seifert
-) Political humiliation X ice hockey = only source of national pride

4. 1949 – Czechoslovak national team won the World Championship for the second time -) next one in London – communist regime against it -) players were provoked to fight -) 11 players in prison
For Bolsheviks – hockey team´s popularity = political threat
1969 – Czechoslovakia´s national team beat the Russian team 2:0 in the World Championship in Stockholm -) joy -) provocation by secret police -) demolishing Sovietian´s airliner office -) 20 years of normalization

5. In the aftermath of 1968 – emigration of nearly 100 hockey players
After the Velvet Revolution – even more hockey players emigrated
=) the US-Canadian National Hockey League

6. Gold medals in:
World Championship in Vienna
1998 – Olympic games in Nagano
World Championship in Norway
World Championship in Russia
World Championship in Germany
2005 – World Championship in Vienna

7. Nagano 1998

8. IIHF World Championship 2010 in Germany