Unexpected news! Czech water slalom skiers will ride in the Olympic Games in a jersey designed by 17-year-old Františka Rappová. The winning design of the “jacket” is in national colors with gold sleeves. Olympians Tereza Fišerová, Kateřina Minařík Kudějová, Jiří Prskavec and Lukáš Rohan and the artistic director of the competition Tomáš Rak, who also competes in water slalom, selected him from 153 proposals in a competition in which Czech and foreign fans took part.
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Kayaker Jiří Prskavec celebrates victory at the European Water Slalom Championships in Prague.
Vlastimil Vacek, Right
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Everyone agreed on the winning design. “I honestly didn’t expect that, because there were a lot of them. The winning design has a lion on it, which I really like, and at the same time the details of the Czech flag. I associate it with the fact that even if there can’t be spectators on the spot, we’ll know that they are with us and keep their fingers crossed for us, “said canoeist Fišerová in a press release of the association.
The older brother made the author of the winning design participate in the competition. “He knows that I have been devoting myself to art for a long time. I prefer to make ceramic products or weave Persian rugs, but I had no experience with the design of sportswear. It was a big challenge for me,” said the winner. She was inspired by the winning throw of the hands of kayaker Prskavec after the triumph at the 2015 World Championships in London. “I imagined how he or other Czech Olympians would master their disciplines and joyfully raise the golden sleeve, which is also part of the Czech flag,” she described.
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This detail decided. “For the choice of the winning design, the boldness in the form of a gold sleeve, which all four Olympians were enthusiastic about, played a role. We were also interested in the combination of good visibility of the design from a distance most of the other works, which also bore national colors, “Cancer explained.
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The winning design of the Olympic jersey for water slalom skiers. The author of the winning work is seventeen-year-old Františka Rappová.
Kanoe.cz, ČTK
This project of water slalom skiers was appreciated by the chairman of the Czech Olympic Committee Jiří Kejval. “Giving fans a chance to design clothes in which athletes will compete and represent their country at the Olympics is something special. No wonder there was such an interest in it,” he said.
The Olympic water slalom races will begin in Tokyo on July 25. “Now it will be up to us to see the proposal as high as possible in Tokyo,” remarked Bronze advocate Sparkler.
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