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Horseriding in the Czech photography
Grohová, Hana ; Géla, František (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
The topic of this bachelor thesis is mainly horse riding in Czech photography. The theoretical part focuses on the history of documentary photography and sports photography in the Czech Republic. It maps out the visual coverage of horse riding in the Czech Republic, introduces the most important figures and shows their work and successes. Through the interview with the Czech News Agency photo reporter Roman Vondrouš it describes the shape of current horse- riding photography, the state of sports photography in Czech agencies and examines current topics. The practical part includes a collection of documentary photographs that show the racetrack Chuchle Arena Praha. The pictures look into the equestrian world and are a visual evidence of its evolution. They capture not only the races themselves, but also the whole process of preparation of horse-riders. They were created during trainings away form actual races, race-day preparations and in the moments of win or loss. They show, what is hidden beneath the surface of the equestrian sport and picture the relationship between humans and horses. Moreover, the photos capture functioning of the racetrack in Velká Chuchle that exists for more than a century already and offers different types of horse-racing competitions. You can see steeplechase and show jumping here.
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Women's 3000 m steeplechase - historical development, motivation of women's runners and factors affecting performance
Svobodová, Lucie ; Bednář, Miloš (advisor) ; Kaplan, Aleš (referee)
Women's 3000 m steeplechase - historical development, motivation of women's runners and factors affecting performance Abstract The topic of this Bachelor thesis is women's 3000 m hurdles race, or steeplechase. The theoretic part inquires into the wider context of the discipline within sports, athletics, middle and long distance race. It also deals with men's / women's steeplechase history, both the Czech and global. Considering the subject of the empiric search the thesis also involves a part dealing with motivation. The goal of this study is the understanding of motivation in the successful Czech female runners for steeplechase racing and analysis of the selected factors affecting their performance. The employed methods are analysis, comparative analysis, and synthesis in the theoretical part. For the practical part the main instrument is a survey. Its results were evaluated qualitatively using an interpretation method involving some tools of hermeneutic analysis. An original non-standardized questionnaire with seven open-ended questions was employed. It was put to 16 respondents picked from the table of the top Czech female runners according to their best ten steeplechase results. Some of the performance-affecting factors have been also gathered using detailed analysis of the athletic statistics....
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