#czech sport

[wikiblair]

Musím říct, že mě při sledování oslav mistrovského titulu neskonale moc pobavilo, že si vzpoměli i na partnerky hokejstů a nechali jim taky pár minut slávy :-). Vidět nadšené dámy křepčit s pohárem stálo za to :-).

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ID: a black and white photo and caption from a newspaper showing a young white trans man with light hair wearing a tweed jacket and high collar smiling at a young white woman in a pale dress as he brushes her mid-length dark hair. She is smiling at him from the slightly complex angle as he brushes her hair. The photo is faded and not great quality but their faces are clear.

The headline over the photo is “Here’s How I Used To Do It!”

The caption below reads “An expert at women's coiffures although not a hairdresser, Zdenek Koubek proves himself as he combs the locks of Cinda Glenn, New York night club beauty. Koubek knows all about coiffures from experience, since they were of concern to him when he was the foremost girl athlete of Czechoslovakia, prior to a sex-change.”

Zdenek Koubek was born in Paskov, Czechoslovakia (at the time) in December 1913, one of eight siblings, and competed as an athlete. With minimal formal training, he began running at age 17, decided to pursue it formally aged 19, and broke two world records at the 1934 world olympics.

Because queer and gender-diverse history is complex, I’m genuinely unsure if Zdenek was intersex. He seems to have been pretty gender-nonconforming when read as a woman in his early life and seems to have retired from athletics because he was harassed by people wanting him to undergo invasive “gender checks” after his gold medals at the 1934 Olympics.

Apparently the current obsession with “defining gender in sport” has roots back to the 1930s. Athletes competing in female athletics have been forced to undergo a variety of examinations for the purpose of declaring them “female enough”. They seem to have never been pleasant, appropriate, or anything other than invasive and dehumanising, and they seem to have always focused on a) defining gender by physicality b) defined that physicality in fairly arbitrary ways that are actually incredibly difficult to relate to anything objective, despite a veneer of scientific objectivity.

I can entirely see why the threat of such harassment would have caused Zdenek to decide an athletic or adjacent career wasn’t worth undergoing it, whether he personally believed himself to be intersex or whether we would recognise him as such today. The term “intersex” has many definitions, and is often challenged by medical professionals if it could potentially cover too many people - e.g. medical professionals have repeatedly challenged the term when used by AFAB people with PCOS, which can cause fertility issues, hirstutism etc, purely on the grounds of “that would make around 10% of women intersex”. Zdenek simply publicly stated “I was wrongly assigned as female at birth” without giving any other details - as he had *every* right to. Some historians have characterised him as intersex based on this, and others simply as trans; he appears, very reasonably, to have preferred to preserve his privacy on the details.

Zdenek went on a lecture tour of the US talking about his life and transitioned in 1936. At the time of this photo, he was pursuing a career in cabaret in the US. He seems to have been reasonably successful but never settled there, returning home and marrying a cis woman with whom he lived happily for the rest of his life, dying in Prague aged 72 in 1986.

He joined a local rugby team along with his brother Jaroslov after WWII and seems to have been an enthusiastic amateur player. I hope he got a lot of joy out of it, which he does seem to have.

Like so many queer and trans histories, Zdenek’s is somewhat obscured because so much of what has been written about him is always skewed by the writer’s own perspectives about gender and transness. Including the drive to impose a false binary on trans experience - which I as a nonbinary person know is certainly not universally present.

There are, of course, *absolutely* trans people who always have a strong feeling of gender equating to “knowing they are a boy/girl from an early age”, and I in no way wish to erase them or their experiences, but it must also be noted and acknowledged there are plenty of us with different experiences. There are people like me who feel “wrong” in our assigned gender from pretty early in life, all the way down to having quite strong dysphoria in puberty and afterwards, but don’t strongly ID as the “opposite” binary gender either. There are people who rub along fine in their assigned gender, or who have many issues with it but don’t know what they equate to, until they have some experience presenting otherwise and suddenly experience strong gender euphoria for the first time in their lives. There are people who never feel anything much at all about gender and only ever do any identifying purely as a matter of convenience because a very binary society requires it.

Cis people seem to find the “always knew/born in the wrong body” narrative the easiest to relate to, and I can only assume that is because it is the narrative that allows them to challenge our society’s gender-essentialist, binarist worldview the *least*. It is considerably easier, and requires much less thought and critical attention, to say “I guess sometimes the occasional person is just mistakenly assigned to the wrong category” than to question those categories, why they exist, what they actually are, how they are imposed, and whether they actually mean anything at all in an objective sense.

I have no idea where Zdenek fell on any of this, or if his experience was very different in another way.

I posted this to, as ever, note that we are not a new phenomenon. Trans people are part of human history. We have always existed. We have always contributed. The way the society we lived in perceived us *and* how the societies our stories have passed through perceived us affect how our stories are told today, and those things can make it complex to uncover the lived experience of the trans person behind all of that. Queer and trans history must always be about acknowledging those facts and uncertainties while doing our best to find out as much as possible about the actual lived experiences of our siblings in the past.

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Brno 1975

[goalhofer]

2024 IIHF Worlds Slovakia Roster

Wingers

#6 Lukáš Cingel (H.K. Kometa Brno/Žilina)

#18 Andrej Kudrna (H.K. V.E.R.V.A. Litvínov/Nové Zámky)

#20 Juraj Slafkovský (Montreal Canadiens/Košice)

#21 Miloš Kelemen (Tucson Roadrunners/Lučenec)

#34 Peter Cehlárik (Leksands Idrottsförening/Žilina)

#56 Marko Daňo (H.K. Oceláři Třinec/Trenčín)

#77 Martin Faško-Rudáš (Bílí Tygři Liberec/Banská Bystrica)

#79 Libor Hudáček (H.K. Oceláři Třinec/Levoča)

#87 Pavol Regenda (San Diego Gulls/Michalovce)

#90 Tomáš Tatar (Seattle Kraken/Ilava)

Centers

#27 Marek Hrivík (Leksands Idrottsförening/Čadca)

#48 Viliam Čacho (H.K. Oceláři Třinec/Trenčín)

#76 Martin Pospíšil (Calgary Flames/Zvolen)

#91 Matúš Sukel (H.K. V.E.R.V.A. Litvínov/Liptovský Mikuláš)

Defensemen

#7 Mário Grman (H.K. Vítkovice Ridera/Topoľčany)

#13 František Gajdoš (H.K. Nitra/Bardejov)

#14 Peter Čerešňák (H.K. Dynamo Pardubice/Trenčín)

#17 Šimon Nemec (New Jersey Devils/Liptovský Mikuláš)

#29 Michal Ivan (Bílí Tygři Liberec/Žiar Nad Hronom)

#42 Martin Fehérváry (Washington Capitals/Bratislava)

#64 Patrik Koch (Tucson Roadrunners/Bratislava)

#98 Andrej Golian (H.K. Slovan Bratislava/Banská Bystrica)

Goalies

#30 Matej Tomek (H.K. V.E.R.V.A. Litvínov/Bratislava)

#31 Samuel Hlavaj (H.K. Škoda Plzeň/Martin)

#33 Stanislav Škorvánek (H.K. Dukla Michalovce/Žilina)

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[alpinelogy]

you’re watching hockey 👀 tell us about it!

Sort of?? ajsjdkd

Idk what you mean by tell us about it I think everyone knows hockey o7. But I’ve gotten a ton of Canadiens propaganda from my mutuals (Kay) since like November and I resisted, but now I’ve been seeing the iihf everywhere so I watched the quarterfinals against the US and yeah. Propaganda successful I guess 😂😭

[beatrack92]

Lucie Svěcená 🇨🇿

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Marek Vašut and Eliška Balzerová in Fists in the Dark (Pěsti ve tmě) 1987, dir. Jaroslav Soukup IMDB

[x-e-n-i-a-nice]

Nicole Vaidišova Former Tennis Player

𝐷𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠

[retrofutbolmgc]

Katerina Siniaková

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[goalhofer]

Every goal of the 2024 IIHF Worlds day 4

U.S.A. vs. Slovakia

#21 Miloš Kelemen (1) Sukel (2), Kudrna (1) 3:17 1st (U.S.A. 0-1 Slovakia)

#79 Libor Hudáček (3) Tatar (1) 11:26 1st (U.S.A. 0-2 Slovakia)

#12 Matt Boldy (1) Hughes (1), Gaudreau (3) 4:48 2nd (U.S.A. 1-2 Slovakia)

#17 Šimon Nemec (1) Fehérváry (1), Pospíšil (2) 7:03 2nd (U.S.A. 1-3 Slovakia)

#64 Patrik Koch (1) Pospíšil (3), Kelemen (2) 8:47 2nd (U.S.A. 1-4 Slovakia)

#57 Shane Pinto (1) Farabee (1), Zegras (1) 4:32 3rd (U.S.A. 2-4 Slovakia)

#7 Braeden Tkachuk (2) Pinto (3) 13:56 3rd (U.S.A. 3-4 Slovakia)

#43 Luke Hughes (2) Sanderson (1) 16:38 3rd (U.S.A. 4-4 Slovakia)

#21 Miloš Kelemen (2) Nemec (2), Pospíšil (4) 3:56 OT (U.S.A. 4-5 Slovakia)

Norway vs. Finland

#27 Oliver Kapanen (4)(PP) Kaski (3) 6:49 1st (Norway 0-1 Finland)

#57 Arttu Hyry (1) Kaski (4), Innala (1) 17:56 1st (Norway 0-2 Finland)

#57 Arttu Hyry (2) Jääskä (1), Innala (2) 0:27 2nd (Norway 0-3 Finland)

#27 Oliver Kapanen (5) Oksanen (4) 10:59 2nd (Norway 0-4 Finland)

#43 Max Krogdahl (1) Johannesen (2) 18:47 2nd (Norway 1-4 Finland)

Switzerland vs. Czech Republic

#21 Kevin Fiala (1)(PP) Hischier (2), Josi (4) 13:36 1st (Switzerland 1-0 Czech Republic)

#93 Matěj Stránský (1)(PP) Špaček (1), Červenka (1) 15:57 2nd (Switzerland 1-1 Czech Republic)

#23 Philipp Kurashev (1)(SO) (Switzerland 2-1 Czech Republic)

Germany vs. Sweden

#65 Erik Karlsson (3) Frödén (2) 2:54 1st (Germany 0-1 Sweden)

#28 Marcus Pettersson (1) Heed (2), Burakovsky (2) 14:52 1st (Germany 0-2 Sweden)

#71 Victor Olofsson (1)(PP) Dahlin (2), Burakovsky (3) 19:57 1st (Germany 0-3 Sweden)

#91 Carl Grundström (1) Dahlin (3), L. Johansson (1) 4:31 2nd (Germany 0-4 Sweden)

#95 André Burakowsky (2) Holmberg (3), M. Johansson (3) 9:22 2nd (Germany 0-5 Sweden)

#83 Leonhard Pföderl (2) Michaelis (3), Ehliz (4) 7:38 3rd (Germany 1-5 Sweden)

#37 Isac Lundeström (1) Karlsson (2), Bengtsson (1) 11:08 3rd (Germany 1-6 Sweden)

[arborius]

“Goalkeeper in the rain” (Stanislav Tereba, 1958)

The first Czech winner of the prestigious international World Press Photo competition, sports and reportage photographer Stanislav Tereba, died on Tuesday 17 January at the age of 85.

[beatrack92]

Veronika Štemberová 🇨🇿

2023 Czech Championships U20 (Prague)

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Eliška Balzerová and Marek Vašut in Fists in the Dark (Pěsti ve tmě) 1987, dir. Jaroslav Soukup IMDB