ANTONÍN KÁBELE
Sprinter
Program: THE ACTIVE AND JOYFUL APPROACH OF OLD AGE
Right from birth, my parents had to save me from having been given to another family. And so, my life began with pitfalls, adventures and love. It’s suitable for a novel, so I write books and lend them to read.
I lived through the First Republic, occupied by the Germans. War. Revolution. Putsch. Cast by Allied troops. Resisting the unsustainable system and restoring capitalism. And I have always been on the front line with my opinions and therefore persecuted. So I found out that it is best to stick to sports, and have already made my third return. And very successfully, I might add. I run sprints, I have never lost in my category and in 35 years I’ve very often been between the winners.
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At the international level, I have been in the finals until I reached the highest level and won the World Master Games. I hold about 50 Czech records, and take part in the Golden Spike races. But this is not the only interest I have which gets recognition from others. I used to paint with talent and now I went into nature and took up photography. I help people in sexology and psychology. I am considered a political scientist. Although I was just a mechanical locksmith, I was a technical inspector at ČKD (engineering company) and then at VVZ Jawa Strašnice (motorcycle manufacturing company). I went from a drafter to a warehouse manager, truck manager, and a librarian. In sports I was also honoured for my merits in Sparta and Slavia. And I was also a successful coach in handball and athletics. I walked long distances. Married 2 times. 4 children. 2 died. And finally, I lived with a partner 49 years younger than me. I was 71 years old. And there is much more.
Life is beautiful, and I don’t want to leave it. I am grateful, though nowadays I am a toothless teenager, who is still moving among the young and understands them.