The long-term successful walking tandem after the World Cup agreed to end the cooperation.

After 19th place at the World Championships in Doha, coach Ivo Piták and competitor Anežka Drahotová tried to analyze the causes of recurring performance failures and find a way to ensure that Anežka was not just in numbers at the Tokyo Olympics.

Ivoš Piták briefly described it.

Contrary to expectations, we got our ass kicked in Doha and reality put us on the ground very hard.  

In practice, we have again verified the basic fact that we will not "deceive" ourselves, and the truth is that we suppressed and did not want to see the unwanted. So quite somewhat such a symbiosis of our thinking and actions arose and the result was 19th place at the World Cup. 

The result of lack of concentration, excuses, calculations, other priorities, a bit of comfort, indiscipline and the search for abbreviations, easier and easier ways ... 

We just verified that, as is customary to work in endurance athletics (even that of the top), it is possible to be nominated for the Olympics, but in no case can you succeed at it! 

Because if he is to succeed, there must be clearly set priorities and he must not deviate from the path, slow down, look for shortcuts and the like. 

If possible, not a single step should be taken next. The world is unstoppably improving, the approach of the best is very hard professional and you could say: "Whoever stood for a while is standing nearby".

Unfortunately, in the opinions on how to solve the situation and how to proceed towards Tokyo, the competitor did not find an agreement with the coach and therefore they agreed to end the direct coaching cooperation. Ivo Piták remains with Anežka only in the position of a consultant and a person who, with his many years of experience, can help her not only with her preparation. But the responsibility for the preparation and creation of plans was taken over by the Australian coach Brend Vallance (with whom, for example, Zuzka Schindlerová was also preparing in the last race year).

At the moment, Anežka Drahotová is preparing for VT in South Africa according to the submitted plans of the Australian coach, and Ivoš Piták is on Lanzarote with Lukáš Gdula and Víťa Hlaváč.

Let's hope that Anežka will restart her previous motivation and discipline with the new coach.

Ivo Piták reworked the national team's training plan and together with Katka Čermáková he wants to link the training of matador Luke Gdula, started by Vít Hlaváč, with his youth talents, so that we do not have to be ashamed of the Czech national team at the three European Championships in Poděbrady in 2021,23,25. .