Blood, sweat and tears
The athlete and the injury may be an association to one another on the colder side of sport. Only the repeated injury is worse than injury itself.
All around Blanka is arranged to avoid the hopeless situations, sufficient rest, preventive exercises, gradually increased stressfulness, physiotherapeutic treatments, carefully selected and specially prepared food, suitable clothing and footwear, blood analysis ... Day after day, year after year. And I cannot complain - we succeed.
And then you enter the space; believe it or not ...!?
Surely you know that stale one about the Titanic, "health" and "happiness". Therefore, we thank to everyone who added a bit of luck to our health, because we needed it very much when Blanka hit her head on the door and fell down covered with blood, just a few hours before qualifications on the World Championships.
What kind of glue would we need to mend the splints of the pot, if she couldn't participate ready like this? And, on the other hand, I would look behind me and the bench with the stand by players would be empty, the curtain wouldn't rise and we would 'pay the money back to the public'.
So, Fate, are you finally satisfied, we have added the third alchemical part to sweat and tears - blood. A lots of blood.