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In this weeks sports news, the Czech Republic progresses to the Davis Cup
quarter finals; the national hockey team sees one debacle and one triumph;
Czech basketball player Jan Veselý helps his NBA team to victory and ski
jumper Roman Koudelka scores a career-best jump. More
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In this week’s Sports News: Tomáš Berdych and Petra Kvitová book
places in the last eight at the Australian Open; Šárka Pančochová takes
second in the snowboard slopestyle world championships; Třinec
consolidates at top of ice hockey extraleague, and Ondřej Synek voted
world’s best rower. More
PanoramaCzech champion Tomáš Kraus on ski cross, Alaska and the Olympics
Freestyle skier Tomáš Kraus is one of the Czech Republic’s best
athletes, specialising in the discipline of ski cross, which was featured
for the first time this year at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. In the
discipline, four skiers race each other to get to the bottom of courses
full of banks and jumps, with the first two advancing to the next round.
With the excitement of close jostling for position and sharp turns, it’s
no surprise that the sport is quickly becoming one of skiing’s most
thrilling.
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Current AffairsCzech ski cross champion, fellow athletes, set sights on Alaska
The professional ski season has drawn to a close but four Czech athletes,
including the Czech ski cross champion Tomáš Kraus, aren’t ready to
pull out the golf clubs just yet. In a day’s time, he and a well-known
freeride skier and two of the country’s best snowboarders will head to
Alaska, where they plan to tackle extreme inclines and pristine powder over
the course of 12 days. The result should be a short documentary about
skiing or snowboarding at its very best.
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