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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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Jaroslav Plasil, the only Czech player left in the Champions League, has
received his first call-up to play for the Czech national team. The player
tells us of what the call-up means to him, and how his club Monaco still
hope to bounce back after a Champions League defeat against Real Madrid.
Meanwhile, in the Czech league Sparta continued their poor run with a
third 0:0 home draw in a row. In the ice hockey Extraliga playoffs Sparta
lead Slavia on games, while Zlin are through to the final after beating
Pilsen.
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The race for the Czech football championship is hotting up, with Slavia
closing the gap on leaders Ostrava by beating them 2:0 away. Sparta Prague
manager Jiri Kotrba has been fined for swearing - his bad language was
clearly audible on television. Both ice hockey Extraliga playoffs are 2:1
on games. In skiing slalom ace Sarka Zahrobska has won two medals at the
national championships, while cross country star Martin Koukal has won a
Czech Olympic Committee award for the best sporting achievement of 2003.
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For the first time in the history of the ice hockey Extraliga the team
which won the league, Pardubice, has been beaten in the first round of the
playoffs. What's more they were beaten by Pilsen, who only made the
playoffs by the skin of their teeth. In football, Sparta Prague beat
Slavia 2:0 in a dramatic game at Strahov. And Czech cross country skier
Katerina Neummanova has been looking back on an "amazing"
season.
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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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In this edition of Sports News: Czech success at the Indoor World
Championships in Hungary, including Roman Sebrle's record-setting win in
the heptathlon; more woe for football's slumping Sparta Prague in the
Czech premier division; and, the latest results in the first round of the
hockey play-offs including big wins by Pilsen and Vitkovice.
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Czech teams had mixed fortunes in European football action this week, with
Sparta Prague holding AC Milan to a 0:0 draw in the Champions League and
Teplice taking a 3:0 battering from Celtic in Glasgow. The last round of
the ice hockey Extraliga is promising to be dramatic, with Pilsen and
Kladno going head to head for the final playoffs place. And cross country
skier Martin Koukal has been in inconsistent form since returning from
injury.
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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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In football, Vaclav Kolousek has finally joined Slavia Prague, after weeks
of negotiations. Tomas Rosicky, meanwhile, is staying at Dortmund, at
least until the end of the season. Czech international coach Karel
Brueckner has come second in a poll of the world's best managers in 2003.
Ice hockey star Jaromir Jagr has been having mixed fortunes at his new
club New York Rangers, and is it the end of the line for another Czech
legend, Dominik Hasek?
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