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In Sports News: the Czech Davis Cup team beat Paraguay to stay in the World
Group; Martin Kovar is the star of the Czech Paralympics team, with three
golds in swimming; Jaromir Jagr scores a hat trick for 'home' club Kladno;
Sparta win ahead of their Champions League game against Lyon in Prague;
sparks are still flying over the circumstances of Pavel Nedved's
retirement from international football; Josef Masopust says Petr Cech
should be made Czech captain; decathlete Roman Sebrle ends a great season
with another win.
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Jaromir Jagr returns to the Czech Rep to train for the upcoming Ice Hockey
World Championships; goalie Tomas Vokoun backstops the Nashville Predators
to an important win over the Detroit Red Wings in the first round of the
Stanley Cup play-offs; Sparta Prague downs Pilsen to keep chances against
Ostrava Banik alive; and Jiri Welsch is set to make NBA history as the
first Czech to ever appear in a post-season NBA game.
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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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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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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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The Czech Republic have been beaten 3:2 by Spain in the first round of this
season's Davis Cup, after Czech number one Jiri Novak suffered a groin
strain. Czech ice hockey coach Slavomir Lener says he was pleased with how
his team played at the Swedish Games, the last tournament before May's
World Championships. Cross country skier Katerina Neumannova has won yet
another World Cup event, this time the 10 kilometre free in the French
Alps. Athlete Roman Sebrle has started the season in style and Czech
footballers made their mark in Europe at the weekend.
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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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Czech ice hockey fans will have the chance to see the NHL's Stanley Cup up
close on Sunday, when the New Jersey Devils Czech star Patrik Elias shows
the trophy off in his home town. While Jiri Slegr considers his future,
Jaromir Jagr looks set to stay at Washington. In football Slavia Prague
have won away in their Champions League second qualifying tie against
Bosnian side Leotar Trebinje.
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