Denisa Helceletová with her husband Adam and daughter Evelin in the archive image.
TIME – Eduard Erben
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Do you also work in a company with a healthy diet, you participate in the preparation of sports stays for families jste Did you plan such a busy program after the end of your career in 2017?
She didn’t plan. I always said I didn’t know what to do, now I don’t know how to do it. (smile) There are a lot of activities, fortunately she is small at age (two and a half years)when she can be with her grandmothers or two mornings a week in kindergarten. But the summer was challenging, I had about two weeks off from the holidays and next year we want to have even more campsites for children.
Is the daughter calm or action-packed by her parents?
He’s still running somewhere until I feel like he’s testing my patience. Adam always says it’s not worth shouting because he doesn’t listen anyway, and he’s right. When she wants to, she is kind, she listens, she cleans, but when she does, she runs away and doesn’t care if a car is driving somewhere. And she’s terribly fast, how many times do I have to do to catch up with her. So we are looking for a hobby where he will have fun and get tired. We don’t want athletics, rather jiu jitsu or drama, she’s a great actress…
The winners’ camps, ie suburban sports camps for children, are expanding every year, now you are starting an academy with sports clubs and seminars in Žižkov, Prague. Did you suspect that your project would start like this?
We had our first camp in 2017 in Český Brod and there were eight children. The next year there were three camps with fifteen children, this year four of the five camps were sold out, next year there may be up to ten. We didn’t even hope it would go so fast. We started at four, me and Adam through sports and two colleagues who deal with social networks and various paperwork, which I would not know. Now we are growing beyond athletics, we work with coaches from other sports, such as badminton player Adam Mendrek. We try to make our own system and methodology.
So is this the ideal post-career job for you? You stayed in sports, you work with children…
Certainly. I have a maternity leave until December, then I have to take care of myself, but I believe that this is a great way. Of course, children also take energy, but I’m happy to see how much they enjoy it and come back. So far, I’ve been to all the camps, next year it probably won’t work, if they even overlap, I’ll travel a lot. Now they are mainly around Prague, but we want to start them all over the country.
Your husband probably won’t have that much time, he wants to qualify for the Olympics in Tokyo.
Thanks to the pandemic, Adam was able to get more involved this year and rode often, it will definitely not work next year. But it helps to consult the trainings and prepare plans, according to which the coaches follow.
After top athletics, won’t you miss it when you go to races with your husband, for example?
Certainly not after Thursday, but I still like the distance. If I heck, then after her. Sometimes there are appetites, but then I wonder who is looking after the little one, who will cook…
So do you sometimes jump in the sand during camps?
I show children different disciplines. The technique is not bad and the dynamics in the ankle is. But I will be thirty-five, it is difficult to return at that age, I would have to deal with diet more.
Habits from professional careers don’t go away, do they?
Sometimes I sin, but I try. If I don’t solve my diet at all, I’ll gain health problems. And also, as Adam is still training and looking at pretty girls, I can’t be big and reciprocated. (smile)
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