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Prague's new state-of-the-art ice hockey arena saw its first game on
Sunday, when Slavia Prague took on Hame Zlin in the third game of the
Extraliga playoff finals. In the NHL, Patrik Elias was the Czech player
with the most points in the regular season. In football news, Sparta
Prague have played their first game under new coach, and former Sparta
star, Frantisek Straka. Elsewhere, Ostrava slipped up at Zlin while
Olomouc have gone second, at least for a short time.
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Sparta Prague have sacked their fourth manager in two years, Jiri Kotrba.
The Czech football league champions are ten points behind leaders Ostrava,
with only seven games to go. In ice hockey, defending champions Slavia
Prague have made a remarkable comeback in the Extraliga semi-finals.
Further afield, Czech star Petr Nedved has scored his 300th NHL goal, and
against a Czech goalie to boot. In tennis, Jiri Novak has been beaten in
the third round of the big-money Nasdaq-100 Open in Miami.
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Sparta Prague have been knocked out of the Champions League by AC Milan,
though not without giving the holders a bit of a fright. Meanwhile, Sparta
manager Kotra is under pressure as a crucial derby against Slavia
approaches. In the ice hockey Extraliga the quarter-finals are close to
being decided, while NHL star Petr Nedved has scored his first goal for
new club Edmonton. And young Czech tennis player Iveta Benesova has been
enjoying her first ever WTA tournament win.
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Teplice beat last year's finalists Celtic in the UEFA Cup on Wednesday
night, but still went down 3:1 on aggregate; both club's managers give
their verdict on the game. In the Czech football league, Liberec's Dosek
scored a hat-trick against Zlin, while Ostrava have extended their lead at
the top of the table. Pardubice are looking good in the ice hockey
Extraliga playoffs and Czech star Petr Nedved has left the New York
Rangers after six years at the club.
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Czech football league leaders Banik Ostrava have been beaten by bottom of
the table Blsany, while defending champions Sparta slipped up at Ceske
Budejovice, allowing a resurgent Slavia to go second. Milan Baros has
returned from injury in style with a goal in his first league game, while
his Czech international team-mate Tomas Rosicky is out with a broken arm.
In ice hockey, Pilsen whupped Kladno to take the last place in the
playoffs and Czech star Robert Lang has gotten off to a great start at new
club Detroit.
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Ostrava Banik has opened the spring football schedule with 2-0 victory over
Liberec, while Sparta Prague has kept pace by beating a feisty Opava
side; ice hockey's Pilsen are still fighting to retain a play-off berth;
Bobby Holik's 1000th game in the NHL was marred by a 6-2 loss; and skiing
star Katerina Neumannova had to pull out of a world cup event after her
trainer opted for the wrong skis.
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Legendary ice hockey goaltender Dominik Hasek's season is over due to
injury. At 39 can he ever return to the ice? Jaromir Jagr, meanwhile, has
topped a table of the highest earning hockey players of all time. As the
Czech football season resumes, international coach Brueckner will be
missing several key players in a friendly against Italy next week. Young
high-jumper Jaroslav Baba is in fine form, though in the biathlon Katerina
Holubcova has had quite a comedown after becoming world champion last
year.
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I've come today to the industrial town of Kladno, around 25 kilometres west
of Prague. The first recorded mention of Kladno comes from the middle of
the 14th century when it was a village owned by the Kladensky family.
Centuries later it was bought by the Benedictine monks from the Brevnov
monastery, who were its owners until 1848.
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Martina Navratilova's last ever match at tennis's Australian Open ended in
defeat in the mixed doubles final on Sunday. Another Czech sporting great,
ice hockey forward Jaromir Jagr, played his 1,000th NHL game on Friday,
though the game could have gone better for the famous no. 68. In football,
Jiri Stajner has joined Sparta Prague on loan from Hanover, while other
Czech players had mixed fortunes as the Bundesliga started again.
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