Ondrej Nepela was thirty-eight when he died, and at the time people in Czechoslovakia did not quite understand why. Director Gregor Valentovič had not even been born then, so he never saw him skate ...

14/02/2025 - Two Slovak-Czech teams are shooting biopics in parallel about the Slovak legend 36 years after his untimely death The story of Slovak figure skater Ondrej Nepela, who represented ...

The story of Slovak figure skater Ondrej Nepela, who represented Czechoslovakia and became the 1972 Olympic champion, a three-time world champion and a five-time European champion, is being adapted ...

Slovak figure skating has lost one of its biggest personalities. Legendary figure skating coach Hilda Múdra died at the age of 95 on November 22. Múdra was mostly known as the coach of Ondrej Nepela, ...

The fate of the legendary Slovak figure skater Ondrej Nepela has appealed to director and producer Jakub Červenka so much that he is going to make a feature film about him. “I decided to make the film ...

The story of Slovak figure skater Ondrej Nepela, who represented Czechoslovakia and became the 1972 Olympic champion, a three-time world champion and a five-time European champion, is being adapted ...

The Ondrej Nepela ice-hockey stadium will require a €2 million investment before the world ice hockey championship which will be hosted by Bratislava and Košice in 2019. It is much less than the ...

Gregor Valentovič peels back the gloss of a Cold War icon to reveal a man caught between public adoration and private battles. Ondrej Nepela was thirty-eight when he died, and at the time people in ...