Olympic museum - Lausanne, Switzerland 
The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland houses permanent and temporary exhibitions related to sports and the Olympic movement. With more than 10,000 artefacts, the museum is the largest archive of Olympic memorabilia in the world and one of Lausanne's main tourist attractions, attracting more than 250,000 visitors each year.
Address: Quai d´Ouchy 1, Lausanne, Švýcarsko
Contact: https://olympics.com/museum
Robert Dill-Bundi and his helmet in the museum (now in storage)
Text: Petr Kocek
That time in the East, or the story of how a silver helmet became a gold one at the Olympics.
After my seventh spot in the fixed kilometer at the Olympics in Moscow 1980, I finally looked a little at the dream box. Although not really me, but…
The Swiss Robert Dill-Bundi rode the individual fighter in a classic leather strap helmet, but in the final, the Frenchman Alain Bundue was waiting for him, who had an aerodynamic plastic helmet, similar to ours, only slightly more extended to the back, a bigger drop.
And since Alain rode only slightly slower times than Robert in the qualification and elimination races, the famous coach of the Swiss, Oscar Plattner, came to coach Pavel Vršecký to ask if we would give him our "Made in Dukla Prague" helmet (it was designed by Mr. Raboň, dad our co-driver Franta Raboň and the grandfather of the later successful professional Fery Raboň, who worked in Pilsen at the airport, the laminate frame was made for us by our water slalom friends from Dukla Brandýs nad Labem, who made their own boats in a different way, and the interior was then modified by each competitor himself) they didn't lend the final.
I was already a kilo away, and my fellow fighters still had a team race ahead of them, so only my silver one could be considered (the boys had red). I didn't have a problem with that, because Robert was my friend, before the Olympics, during the track and field races in Zurich, I was with him for a week at the hotel where he lived for a long time, they went to road training together, went out to eat together and got along quite well. He did not modify the helmet in any way, he kept the foam interior and the straps as I made them, he just stuck a sticker of the Helvetic cross on the front, symbolizing his Swiss homeland.
The second day after winning the race, he came to return the shell to me, but since we knew each other really well, I gave it to him, I had another one at home and this one was not precious to me because of a slightly messed up kilo. From Plattner, I then received a Texas Instrument calculator for my helmet, which I handed over to coach Vršecký and ended up in Dukla so that Vrda and his colleague Tomáš Čapek could better keep statistics of our training kilometers or calculate split times during training and races.
Then the helmet, with Dill-Bundi's signature and an appropriate explanation of its international story, appeared in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, where at the time it was the only exhibit from us, along with Emil Zátopek's running shoes (later others were added, e.g. Jan Železný's javelin, or hockey jersey of Peter Svoboda from Nagano).
