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In Sports News this Monday: a young English golfer takes his first big
title at Czech Open; in tennis, Tomáš Berdych beats Roger Federer at
Cincinnati before later pulling out with a shoulder injury; Czech football
titleholders Plzeň gear up for the second leg of their Champions League
play-off; also, Czech canoe racer Lukáš Koranda wins silver in the 5000
metres at the world championships in Hungary. More
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Tennis player Petra Kvitová wins the Open GDF SUEZ against the world no.
1, Martina Sáblíková takes bronze at the World Speed Skating
Championship in spite of a fall, and saving the worst for last, the Czech
ice hockey team finishes in last place at the LG Hockey Games in Stockholm. More
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In Sports News this week: Sweden’s Peter Hanson wins golf’s Czech Open;
the Czech Under-21 baseball team wins the European title;in football,
Sparta Prague lose to Žilina in the first leg of Champions League
qualifier and fall to Plzeň in the top Czech division; and javelin
champion Barbora Špotáková finishes second in the Diamond League event
in Zurich but secures the series title.
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In this week’s Business News: Škoda Auto sets first half sales record;
foreign investment flows pick up; defence minister declares war on tender
corruption; construction giant to challenge suspicious contract decisions;
and on course for a golf empire.
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In Sports News this Monday: with Ivan Hašek stepping down as manager of
the Czech international football team, his former assistant Michal Bílek
is the bookies’ favourite to take over on the Czech bench; Slavia
Prague’s goalkeeper is carried from the pitch by an ambulance after a
clash with an opponent leaves him out cold for 10 minutes; Petra Kvitová
is beaten in the final of tennis’s Linz Open; and decathlete Roman
Šebrle says he wants to return to the Olympics – as a golfer. More
Current AffairsŠpindlerův Mlýn gets ready for Extreme Golf tournament
Four years ago, three friends including well-known Czech golf pro Alan
Babický got it into their heads to bring Extreme Golf to the Czech
Republic, a sport which, as you may have guessed is not played on
traditional greens but on truly rough terrain in this case mowed trails on
the Špindlerův Mlýn ski resort. The rules are fairly straightforward:
players have three clubs and play 12 holes which are circles drawn on the
ground. Sound fun?
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In Sports News this Monday: Sweden’s Oskar Henningsson win’s the Czech
Republic’s biggest golf tournament, the Moravia Silesia Open; Roman
Kreuziger comes agonisingly close to winning cycling’s Classic San
Sebastian; Czech tennis player Lucie Hradecká reaches, and loses, the
third WTA final of her career; and favourites Slavia and Sparta have both
made an unconvincing start to the Czech football league. More
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In Sports News this Monday: Tomáš Berdych wins his first title of the
season after an epic battle with Russia’s Youzhny in the final of the
Munich Open; with an eight-point lead and only three games to go, Slavia
Prague seem assured of winning the Czech football league again; Czech-born
golfer Alex Čejka squanders the biggest final day lead in the history of
the Players Championship; and questions are being asked about where it went
wrong for the Czechs at the world ice hockey championships.
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