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In Sports News this Monday: the biggest Czech team ever at the European
Rowing Championships takes home a bagful of medals, with gold for Ondřej
Synek confirming his dominance this season; football league leaders
Viktoria Plzeň wallop Ústí nad Labem in front of their first sell-out
home crowd in years; and a battle of two Czech ice legends sees Jágr’s
Omsk beat Hašek Spartak Moscow.
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A man pretending to be Spiderman gets stuck down a chimney. Jaromír Jágr
opens a gas station in Siberia and a sixty-year-old secondary school
teacher is running in the autumn local elections even though he is dead.
Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.
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Current AffairsEuphoric scenes as Czechs beat Finland to break quarter-finals hex
There were scenes of euphoria in Cologne on Thursday evening, as the Czech
ice hockey team overcame Finland in a tense penalty shootout. The win
represented a real breakthrough for the Czechs, who had previously been
knocked out at the quarter-final stage at the World Championship four years
in a row. They now face Sweden for a place in the final.
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Current AffairsFollowing Norway loss, Jágr hits out at Czech players who declined national team
Thirty-eight-year-old Czech hockey star Jaromír Jágr is far from happy
with the situation on the national team following the squad’s shock loss
to Norway at the World Championship. Speaking to reporters afterwards, the
centre-forward, who has played for the national squad on many occasions,
was highly critical of key players who this year declined the World
Championship in Germany. He suggested they should “kiss the behinds” of
big-name players who had selflessly played for their country before.
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