Czech Republic
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First day of issue: April 01, 1998
Occasion: 1998 Winter Olympics,1998,Nagano,Japan
Width: 38 mm
Height: 24 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume XLI
Stamp ID = 4360

From Wikipedia"Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics - Men's tournament"

The 1998 Olympic men's ice hockey tournament was the first in which professional players from the National Hockey League (NHL) were allowed to participate, allowing national teams to be constructed using the best possible talent from each country. The 1998 Olympic tournament therefore came to be known as the "Tournament of the Century"

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Dominik Hasek was the goaltender for the gold medal winning team from the Czech Republic.

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From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.

Czech Republic (1993- )
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 10,318,958. A republic in central Europe, comprising the Czech portion of the former Czechoslovakia, corresponding to the historic Bohemia.