Current Affairs Almost 20,000 due to take part in Sokol physical exercise gathering in July
The Sokol physical exercise organisation, founded in 1862 during the Czech national revival, is one of the oldest associations of its type in the world. Plans have just been announced for the 14th Vsesokolsky Slet (All-Sokol Meeting), a gigantic gathering which takes place every six years. Eighteen thousand people are due to take part in the 2006 Slet, which is being held in the first week of July at the Evzen Rosicky stadium at Prague's Strahov. The modern era of Sokol began with its revival after the fall of communism; I spoke to the organisation's Dr Vladimir Dostal and began by asking him: what shape is it in today?
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