Thousands pay last respects to hockey hero, national side coach

Thousands of Czechs - including the current line-up for the Czech national hockey team - paid final respects to the late Ivan Hlinka on Tuesday at Prague's Zofin Palace. The charismatic Hlinka, the coach who led the Czech Olympic ice hockey team to victory in Nagano, Japan, in 1998, was killed in a car accident last Monday.

This Tuesday he remembered by his wife, mother, son, and former team mates as well as current players.

Ivan Hlinka was just 54 when he died.