[1] Czech athlete Olga Fikotová won a gold medal in women's discus.

She also started a famous love affair with American athlete Harold Vincent Connolly here.

The Olympic team spent Christmas Day in the Pacific and New Year's Eve in Siberia.

The team experienced high temperatures during voyage across equator and later freezing weather with -50 °C in Siberia.

It is very probable that the reason for the warning was only fictional and a long journey home was only a political decision made by Czechoslovak and Soviet communists.