Prague Champions Blog (Diary of Oom Jan)

Tuesday 1st July -  Day Five

The first sporting events of the championships – javelin and discus – coincided with the hottest week of 2025 in Czechia so far. So it would only be appropriate to call this entry:

How to Relax in a Microwave.

But browsing through the photo dailies of our respected photographer Marika Hradilová, we decided to make this more of a Cooling Effect Competition photoblog.

Because even when you unexpectedly recognize the heroic postures of the classical Greek athletes with javelin and discus within your mates like Cindy, Veronika or Štěpán (see first series of throwers), it is still cooling down which counts most in this heat.

So we picked the following pictures: Cooling Effect of the Wet Towel of Moravia (2025 golden medalist Veronika Nášelová with her mom). The cooling effect of love (Kačka and Michal or   Mexican athletes hug). And we also witnessed the Cooling effect of sleep and dance when the athletes fought the pressure.

But, you see, in the IAADS Open European Championships 2025 not everything happens on the track and stadium and not everything is about medals - though the local team boasts of achieving gold, silver and bronze today here

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Photo by Marika Hradilová - Instagram and by Ondřej Szollos Instagram

So within the hotel walls we also found athletes from England and Finland who do not compete in discus or javelin. They opted for the social programme indoors, joined an art workshop  and told us they currently prefer the Soothing effect of Czech puppets! 

by Oom Jan