Pavel Doležel's great rival, Polish cyclist Ryszard Szurkowski, three-time amateur world champion and four-time Peace Race winner; died February 2021

Meeting of legends after 2000; from left - Pavel Doležel, Olympic javelin winner from Helsinki 1952 Dana Zátopková, cyclist Jan Veselý and Oldřich Svojanovský, silver medalist from the Summer Olympics in Munich in rowing

Pavel Doležel (far left) at a meeting with former cyclists; from left by Pavel Doležel are Gainan Saidkhuzhin, Viktor Kapitonov, Antonín Bartoníček, Jan Smolík and Michal Klasa, 1999

Pavel Doležel (far right) during the Peace Race at a meeting with the Director of the Tour de France J. M. Leblanc (third from the right); turn of the 20th and 21st century

Bořivoj Černý photographed Soviet occupiers in August 1968 in Stříbro, West Bohemia, where he was at military service

Taking the military oath, Bořivoj Černý far left, 1966

With his mum and aunt, late 1940s

As a little boy, early 1950s

At the age of three, in Liberec

With his grandmother and grandfather

Bořivoj Černý in 2021

Early 1950s

Bořivoj Černý as a photojournalist at the FK Jablonec stadium, at first league football, second half of the 1990s

Bořivoj Černý as a tennis player and medal winner at the European Journalists' Doubles Championship, 1990s

Construction of a tunnel for the Prague underground; photo by Bořivoj Černý, first half of the 1970s

Motocross racers going up a hill; photo by Bořivoj Černý, first half of the 1970s

At an exhibition of his photographs, 2010

Bořivoj Černý, 2016

Bořivoj Černý in 2021

Do you fancy a cigarette, Comrade Husák? - Army General and Minister of Defence Martin Dzúr lighting a cigarette for the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Gustáv Husák; photo by Bořivoj Černý, first half of the 1970s

Match Czechoslovakia - Canada, Canadian forward Bobby Clarke assaulting Czechoslovak captain František Pospíšil with his hockey stick; photo by Bořivoj Černý, September 1972

Czechoslovak forward Richard Farda getting over the Swedish goalkeeper at the 1972 World Hockey Championship in Prague; photo by Bořivoj Černý

Olympic discus throw winner from Munich 1972 Ludvík Daněk enjoying a mud bath; photo by Bořivoj Černý, first half of the 1970s

Start of the Jizerská padesátka [50km long cross-country ski race, trans.] at Hrabětice meadow; photo by Bořivoj Černý, 1970s

One of the first photographs by Bořivoj Černý, first half of the 1960s