Dec 13, 1999

I have read your article about my friend Emil Zatopek in Runner's World, and I was very pleased about all of it. I am a California resident but was born in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), and Emil is my very dear friend. I was runing in his time with him. We know each other from the year 1942.

Emil was very ill and spent the last two months in hospital, but he is now home and we have talked on the telephone. I told him about your beautiful article about him, and of course I airmailed it to him immediately. (Ladislav Koran)

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