Spartakiads were attended out of compulsion. But those who passed through Strahov were satisfied with what they had accomplished
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Marie Čežíková née Hadravová was born on 12 September 1932 in Malín near Kutná Hora. Her father was a Czechoslovak legionnaire, later he worked as a constable in the gendarmerie. Her mother took care of the household. She graduated from a burgher school and entered a social and health secondary school. In 1949 she transferred to the pedagogical high school in Příbram. She passed the comparative exams at the Faculty of Education of Charles University and began working as a teacher. She continued teaching until the end of her professional life, retiring in 1989. Marie, like her family, went to Sokol and in 1948 she performed at the XI All-Sokol Meeting. In the following years she participated in the rehearsals of all the Spartakiads. She and her husband Josef raised two sons, Zdeněk and Jiří.
