Vera Caslavska, Czech Olympic Gymnastics Great Who Protested 1968 Invasion, Dead at 74

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Vera Caslavska, Czech Olympic Gymnastics Great Who Protested 1968 Invasion, Dead at 74

Vera Caslavska, Czechoslovakia's most decorated Olympic athlete and a vocal critic of communism who was persecuted for her dissent, has died at the age of 74.
 
The head of the Czech Olympic Committee said on August 31 that Caslavka had passed away a day earlier after battling pancreatic cancer for more than a year.
 
"Vera was a fighter. She was diagnosed last year in the spring.... When she did not come with us to Rio it was clear the situation was bad," Jiri Kejval told the Reuters news agency, referring to the Summer Olympics in August in Brazil.
 
Born on May 3, 1942 in Prague, Caslavska claimed her first Olympic medal -- a silver -- at the 1960 Rome Games.

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She was a Joy to watch. I remember her when I was a little kid. No one was better until Nadia Comaneci came along.

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Competed in the Olympics in  '60, '64 and '68.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C4%9Bra_%C4%8C%C3%A1slavsk%C3%A1

The Radio Free Europe headline on the main page called her an anti-communist, one goes to the article and it is that she protested the '68 invasion.