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Recently, the Czech team from the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games got together to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the event. Among those present was the gold-winning javelin-thrower from Helsinki, Dana Zatopkova, who celebrated her 80th birthday in September. In this week's Profile we look at Dana Zatopkova's sporting career and her life with her, now deceased, husband Emil.

It may seem unbelievable, but the Czech "dinosaurs" of rock-music, probably the most famous Czech band, Olympic, are celebrating 40 years on stage. You can't talk about the Czech rock scene and not mention this group.

Earlier this month, Zdenek Svestka, a Czech-born solar physicist based in Holland received the Nusl Prize, awarded annually by the Czech Astronomical Society to scientists who have contributed in a major way to the development of astronomy in the Czech Republic.

This week's edition of Profile is not dedicated to one person as usual. During the recent floods Pavla Horakova went out and talked to people who together with the rescue crews were the real heroes of the recent events... the voluntary workers.

With top representatives of 46 states expected to stay in the city from the 20th to the 22nd of November, Prague's smart hotels too have to make sure everything will be ready for the exceptional and numerous guests. I'm now standing outside Prague's Renaissance Hotel where I'm about to meet Helena Dunn, a Czech-born American interior designer. She's currently redesigning some parts of the hotel for it to be able to receive all those important guests.

After his recent Stanley Cup win and his subsequent retirement from ice hockey, the legendary goaltender Dominik Hasek is now back home in the Czech Republic. In this week's Profile Pavla Horakova looks at the life and career of the outstanding Czech ice-hockey player.

Knowing that with the exception of the "Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir, published in the 60s, there was literally no feminist or gender-focused literature available in Czech, Marie Chribkova, a young cultural activist, decided to introduce world feminist writing to the Czech readership and founded her own publishing house. In this week's Profile Pavla Horakova talks to Marie Chribkova about the hardships and joys of a small-scale publisher in the Czech Republic.

Will Czech politics be better or worse off without him? Did his famous candid statements harm Czech foreign policy or lower the general standard of the country's political culture? The man in the spotlight is the outgoing prime minister, Milos Zeman. You can find out more about one of the most remarkable figures on the Czech political scene in this edition of Profile with Pavla Horakova.

One of the biggest Czech pop stars of the sixties, Waldemar Matuska, is turning 70 in a few weeks. In this week's Profile Pavla Horakova looks at the life of this famous Czech singer after four decades spent at the forefront of the Czech pop-music scene.

Viktor Janis is a young and successful literary translator. Among his translations are works by such renowned authors as Graham Greene, Isaac Asimov, Iain Banks, Hanif Kureishi, Tom Clancy or Louis de Bernieres. Viktor has already gained recognition for his work in literary translation but that is not the only way in which he contributes to the overall quality of Czech translation. In this week's edition of Profile Pavla Horakova spoke to Viktor Janis after she visited one rather unusual award ceremony at the annual Book Fair.