Panorama Sokol New York

24-07-2008 17:50 | Ian Willoughby

The first New York Sokol opened its doors in 1867, only five years after the Sokol youth and gymnastics organisation was founded in Prague as an important element in the Czech National Revival nationalist movement. Sokol New York’s homely sports and social hall is on East 71st St in Manhattan. But that wasn’t the group’s first location.

Norma Zabka during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, photo: www.sokolnewyork.org Norma Zabka during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, photo: www.sokolnewyork.org   Back

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