Ladislav Žák filming his story with the Memory of Nation team, 2024

Ladislav Žák filming his story with the Memory of Nation team, 2024

Ladislav Žák's sport beginnings in Aš

Ladislav Žák's mother was an avid sportswoman, pictured here in the first row, the first woman at left

Ladislav Žák preparing his cross-country skis before his first cross-country race

As a bicycle racer with the number 18

Ladislav Žák's mother on skis, wearing the number 18

As a rehabilitation worker at Dukla Liberec

Ladislav Žák gets his first skis for Christmas

A young mountaineer

Ladislav Žák in his childhood

Ladislav Žák in 2024

Tomas Kučera in 2024

Tomas Kučera in 2024

Tomáš Kučera in 1970 before the World Ski Championships in the High Tatras

Tomáš Kučera (centre) in 1950, his brother Antonín on the left, brother Pavel on the right

Tomáš Kučera in 1949. He is sitting on his mother Marie's lap, on the right are his brothers Antonín and Pavel

Tomáš Kučera in 1953 in Harrachov

Tomáš Kučera in 1957 with his brother Antonín, who is standing on the right

Tomáš Kučera (right) at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s at the races in Harrachov. To the left of him stands his brother Antonín

Tomáš Kučera in 1961 at the school ski jumping competition in Harrachov

Tomáš Kučera as a fourteen-year-old in 1963 at the races in Harrachov. In the same year he won the national youth championship in ski jumping

Tomáš Kučera in 1967 as a soldier in Dukla Liberec

Tomas Kucera in 1969 as a member of Dukla Liberec

Tomáš Kučera in 1967 at the races in Plavy, Jablonec region