After a night return from the European Championships from St. Wendel we spent the night in Prague at the Czech Cycling Federation. Although we were happy to finally relax and lie down, the horrible rooms and bunk beds made all of us think of home. But we had to stay in the city, because on Tuesday the first McDonalds workshop for Olympic hopes would take place.

This year’s meeting of talents from different sports (Adam Zíka — downhill skiing, Eliska Hájková — cross country skiing, Lukás Koranda — canoeing and Katerina Cachová- heptathlon), which McDonald's has been supporting for the past 3 years in its project McDonald´s Olympic Hopefuls Team, has really worked out well! In the beginning the idea was for each “hopeful” to have his own patron from his sport who would hand down his/her experience. It was a good idea, but this year’s project is even more appealing.

On May 20th we woke up in a gorgeous hotel 987 in the city center, and after a delicious breakfast we moved with both of my bikes to a meeting room in the Golden Tulip hotel just around the corner. Here we were welcomed by a smiling young team of organizers of this project — company Event Concept and my dear sport colleagues. After a short welcome I looked into my papers to see what is on the program... I was pleasantly shocked! During the day we will all meet our realization team. First we meet Petr Havlícek, who is a dietologist, one of the best nutrition experts in the Czech Republic. After his presentation, where we all agreed on our co-operation, we had a short photo shoot. It was fun as always with this group of people.

In good humor we returned back to the meeting room, where we were greeted by one of my icons, Jaromir Jagr´s coach, the “psychology” expert, Marián Jelínek! I am just reading his book now and I really enjoy reading about his thoughts and ideas. His energetic presentation about the importance of positive thinking and concentration and its effect on our sport achievements had me stay put in my chair the entire presentation, just so I wouldn´t miss out on something J

After lunch, where we said our good bye to Marián Jelínek we had our last presentation. Instead of a hand shake with the master of physiotherapists, Mr. Milos Barna, we were greeted by a resonance test. I am really looking forward to my co-operation with him and all the other experts. I only hope that they will spend enough of their precious time with us and I would like to thank McDonalds and Event Concept for making all of this possible for us, helping us reach our goals!