Bohumila Kordová

"We, for example, from the Western countries we were from, sometimes we used to carry banned literature. Milan Svoboda, with whom I used to go mixing, he especially had the opportunity to have banned literature... He was a scout and so on, so it was just transported from there, but it wasn't known much and it wasn't allowed to be known because we were normally checked at the border. They took off, or we had to take off the tow boats - take off, take out the luggage. So the guys, how many times, just Sodomka and these guys, they would normally pile up the wet stuff so that later on when they had to empty the bag, it would stink because there was stuff that we had piled up. And the boats, or the forbidden things were carried because in the boats you had these spaces made of polystyrene so that the boat wouldn't sink. And behind this Styrofoam, some of the packages that were being transported were put. You just prayed that it was your boat that they didn't want you to [not] have to take it down."

"For me, as part of my training, and I've already made the national team, as part of my training I was on the water... We were working from six o'clock and I was getting into the downhill boat before five o'clock. At Štvanice I used to go under the Libeň Bridge, where there used to be coal warehouses. I left the boat there and drove to ČKD. There I ran across the whole area to the pumps and at 6:00 I was pumping. So when people saw me on the tram, they said, 'Well, we're late again.' So I was going upstream again, and that was my mileage. I'd go home and eat or change my clothes and go and practice slalom. Because we used to do slalom and downhill, both."