120 Czech athletes Beijing-bound

At least 120 Czech athletes will participate in the Olympic Games in Beijing in August. The Czech Olympic Team will include 26 track-and-field athletes, including Roman Šeberle, the gold medallist in decathlon from the last games in Athens, and the javelin thrower Barbora Špotáková, who has set this season’s best performance. Among the participants in the Games will also be tennis players Tomáš Berdych, Radek Štěpánek and Nicole Vaidišová, as well as Lenka Śmídová who won the country’s first ever medal in sailing at the last Olympic Games. The entire Czech 2008 Olympic Team will have around 230 members; the country’s participation in the games will cost around 40 million crowns, or more than 2.6 million U.S. dollars.