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By PEER J. OPPENHEIMER
In December, 1956, two Olympic champions one from the
United States, the other from behind the Iron Curtain
fell in love while competing at the summer Olympics in
Melbourne, Australia.
But for Harold Vincent Connolly of Boston, Mass., who
won the hammer-throw event, and for Olga Fikotova, who
walked away with the honors in the discus competition, the
future looked dark. She was denied permission to leave
her native Czechoslovakia to marry him.
Harold followed Olga to Prague and for three weeks .
pleaded with officials to let him take her to his country.
Finally, sympathetic world opinion on both sides of the.
Iron Curtain forced officials to change their stand.
Three weeks after Harold arrived in Prague and a day
before his visa expired, their public wedding was witnessed
with more enthusiasm by the local population than any
similar event since early postwar days.
And then the young couple dropped out of sight.
What has become of them?
I found the answers in an exclusive interview for family
weekly when I met them in Santa Monica, Calif., shortly
before they left for Europe to participate in the Olympics
again this time as members of the same team. Olga, who
has just won her American citizenship, is now eligible to
compete for the Stars and Stripes. '
Two weeks after Harold and Olga arrived in the United
States, he went back to teaching English and social studies
at a Boston high school, while she tried to resume her medi
cal training.
Unfortunately, there was one major problem: Olga
couldn't understand a single word! "Her English was so
poor," Harold recalls, "that when she came here, she could
understand only me. "
A few months after settling in Boston, Harold and Olga
flew to Los Angeles to participate in a track meet at the
Los Angeles Coliseum. Olga fell in love with California and
kept after Harold to move West. He soon gave in.
A friend and fellow Olympic athlete, Parry O'Brien, who
is the assistant manager of a Beverly Hills bank, got Harold
a job as ninth-grade English teacher at John Adams Junior
High School in Santa Monica, an apartment they could
afford, and enough furniture to get by.
By this time, Olga had progressed sufficiently in English ,
to accept a job as a laboratory technician at UCLA's medical
school research department, attend citizenship classes at
night, and take a course in biochemistry which, she hopes,
will enable her to pass the National Medical Board Exami
nations and enroll at the UCLA medical school in the near
Harold and Olga Connolly, who married only three weeks after they met during the '56 Olympic Games, now have year-old son, Mark.
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future. All this plus rigorous training for
the 1960 Olympics!
The American way of training for the
Olympics is quite different from Czecho
slovakia's, according to Olga. She has both
praise and misgivings about the differences.
Here athletes train on their own and, says
Olga, haver to be far more dedicated to keep
up the furious pace. On the other hand,
under the state-controlled system, training
is done in groups, with teams supported by
the government. The state provides special
funds, training camps, medical care, time
off from work, and other inducements. As
an athlete, Olga likes that.
Also, she feels that sports are overempha
sized in Iron Curtain countries to a point
where an athlete who has outlived his use
fulness often has no other skills to live by.
Financially, the Connollys have difficul
ties. They don't earn much, and their baby
sitter and training expenses have been
considerable. They used their only "real
savings" a $200 tax refund to buy a TV
set for Olga's parents in Prague.
Having the Fikotovas come to the United
States would make their happiness com
plete, Olga says. She is an only child, her
father is on a small pension, and her
mother, who suffers from chronic bron
chitis, must work to help support him.
"We are terribly worried what will hap
pen if she can't work any longer," Harold
says. "For the past two years, we've ap
pealed to just about every high government
official in Czechoslovakia to bring them
here. We were never turned down. We
just didn't get any answer!"
He hesitated a moment before he con
tinued gravely: "We've never talked about
this for publication, but we can't put it off
any longer. Maybe if our plight is told in
family weekly, it might start the ball roll
ing. After all, it was public opinion that got
Olga and myself permission to get married."
Other than concern for her parents,
Harold and Olga who knew each other ,
only three weeks before marrying are as
happy as any two young Americans you're
likely to meet.
American Olga practices discus throw,
hoping to better her Czech record.
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Connolly family fun (above)
consists of training for Olympic
Games. Harold again will com
pete in hammer throw (left),
looks like a cinch to win.
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