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By Shaun Assael

Monday, October 13, 2008

Kladno feels like a fairy tale town with the wrong ending. Twenty thousand people who worked at the metal factory lost their jobs when the Czech Republic was liberated from Soviet rule in 1989, and many of them haven't found new work yet. The plaster facades of the villas along its side streets are peeling, and boxy apartments on the avenues belch dust from coal furnaces, caking the city in sulfur. Its sports complex was once the jewel in the country's sports school system—the place Jaromi ...

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