An outdoor exhibition in the center of Prague will show the Czech participation in the Olympics
Updates: 05.01.2022 01:01
Released: 05.01.2022, 01:01
Prague – Famous or, on the contrary, lesser-known moments from the history of Czechoslovak and Czech participation in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games will be shown in today’s exhibition in Prague in Na Příkopě Street. It was prepared by the Czech Press Office (ČTK), it presents pictures mainly of its reporters and from its rich archive, but also other sources. The Olympic Moments outdoor exhibition will be open for about a month from this afternoon. The Winter Olympics will begin in Beijing on February 4.
After further stops, he will return to Prague in May, when he will be on the Pankrác Plain and also on the promenade at the Czech Photo Center in Butovice. After the Olympic Games in Beijing, the composition of the photographs at the exhibition will probably be adjusted. It now offers 152 large-format photographs and, in addition to historical images, it also shows the achievements of Czech athletes at the last Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
The former long-time head of the ČTK editorial board, Ladislav Josef, who took part in the Olympics as a reporter and was also the spokesman for the national Olympic team at several games, probably took part in the exhibition. He collaborated on it with the editor-in-chief of ČTK news, Radka Matesová Marková, and the editor-in-chief of the ČTK Photobank, Petr Mlch, who also appeared at previous ČTK outdoor exhibitions as authors of photographic images.
“After the Moments of the Century, the Moments of the Velvet Revolution and Unwanted Moments, this time we decided to leave the field of big politics and show extremely interesting pictures from Czech and Czechoslovak sports history, of which the century-old ČTK photo archive is full,” said Petr Mlch. On the same anniversary of the republic and its founding, ČTK organized a traveling exhibition Moments of the Century in 2018, and in 2019 on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the communist regime the exhibition Moments of the Velvet Revolution. It was freely followed in 2020 by the exhibition Undesirable Moments, which mapped manipulation and censorship in journalism.
As part of the Olympic Moments exhibition, special parts of the Četkast podcast were also created from Olympic medals and other participants in the Olympics. Links to them are via QR codes directly on the exhibition panels. She also prepared materials for schools for the ČTK exhibition.