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The Czech ice hockey team have had mixed results in their last competitive
games before the World Championships, which get underway in Prague on
Saturday. Meanwhile, coach Lener says selecting a squad will not be easy,
with several Czech NHL stars now available. In football, leaders Ostrava
have found their winning touch again, while internationals Rosicky and
Smicer are both back after injury. And in tennis, Iveta Benesova has been
defeated in the final of the Estoril Open in Portugal.
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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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Current AffairsLaw on football hooliganism to also address sale of beer during games
While many European countries have been dealing with football violence for
decades, in the Czech Republic it is a relatively recent phenomenon, one
of the more unwelcome imports which followed the fall of the Communist
system. Now legislators are preparing a new law to combat the problem. Jan
Obst is the chairman of the Czech Football Association:
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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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Most Czech dailies on Friday carry photos of the British Prime Minister,
Tony Blair, shaking hands with the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Mlada Fronta Dnes features a photo of a Greek actress lighting the Olympic
torch on Thursday that will travel around the world for the next 141 days
to return back to Greece to launch the Summer Olympics in Athens.
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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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