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In Sports News: cross country skier Katerina Neumannova takes gold at the
Nordic Skiing World Championships, while Jakub Janda comes second in ski
jumping; Vaclav Kolousek makes an emotional return for Slavia FC after
overcoming leukemia; and Kladno are the latest team to qualify for the
playoffs of ice hockey's Extraliga. More
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In Sports News: Czech skiing has one of its most successful weekends ever,
with World Cup wins for cross country skier Lukas Bauer and ski jumper
Jakub Janda; Pavel Nedved sustains a knee injury, while Miroslav
Matusovic signs for Nedved's old club, Sparta Prague; four Czech clubs
could be barred from the league due to insolvency; and there are no Czech
singles players left in the Australian Open. More
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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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Cross country skier Katerina Neummanova has won yet another World Cup race,
her fourth in seven starts. Lukas Bauer was less fortunate in Sweden on
Saturday, when instead of making for the finishing line he went the wrong
way! Sparta Prague and Teplice could only manage 0:0 draws in the Czech
football league at the weekend, poor preparation for their mid-week
European ties. The Czech ice hockey Extraliga is hotting up as the
play-offs approach, and some big stars have expressed interest in playing
for the Czech Republic at the World Championships in April.
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Just weeks after joining Sparta Prague, 21-year-old striker Jan Rezek made
a dream debut on Tuesday, when he scored two goals. The next day the
younger Gluscevic brother at the club also made his mark by netting two.
After winning the latest stage of the Dakar Rally, six-time winner Karel
Loprais is currently third overall in the truck category in a Czech-made
Tatra. Jiri Novak is in good form ahead of tennis's Australian Open. And
will Czech ice hockey fans get to see stars Jagr and Lang in action at the
World Championships?
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After 16 years without a Czech medal in individual competition, two Czech
biathlonists made it to the podium at the sport's World Championships in
Siberia on Saturday. The Czechs took only one medal at the European Indoor
Atheltics Championships in Birmingham, when Roman Sebrle scored a
disappointing bronze. The line-ups for the ice hockey Extraliga play-offs
have been decided, and in football Sparta stay in front with a win over
Stare Mesto.
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In sports this week: Slavia victorious in UEFA Cup action. Prague teams
tied for top spot in Czech football league. Katerina Holubcova comes in
third at world biathlon championships, Martin Koukal sixth at cross
country world cup. The race for last spots in Hockey playoffs heating up.
And, Martin Straka, Milan Hejduk, and Robert Reichel carry their teams to
victory in NHL action.
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Skier Katerina Neumannova is one step closer to a pair of belated Winter
Olympic medals, after two disqualified Russian skiers lose an appeal.
Meanwhile, with Neumannova on a career break to have a baby, Lukas Bauer
proves she is not the only Czech cross-country star of international
quality. Tennis ace Jiri Novak has won the curiously-named Golden Canary
award, and the Czech teams left in the UEFA Cup have an uphill battle in
next week's third round second legs. All those stories and more are in
Sports News.
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