Czechoslovakia competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Most successful competitor was Věra Čáslavská (one of only 9 women in crew) with 4 gold medals - 3 individual, 1 team. Other big surprises were gold medals performances of bicycle racer Jiří Daler and weightlifter Hans Zadražila, who break world record during his performance. Medal hopes of world record holder athlete Jiří Daněk were fulfilled with little disappointment silver medal.
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“The people of Western Europe are facing this summer a series of tragic dilemmas. Of the hopes that dazzled the last twenty years that some political movement might tend to the betterment of the human lot, little remains above ground but the tattered slogans of the past.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)