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In Sports News: Czech Roman Sebrle has beaten his main rival Tom Pappas of
the US in a warm-up for the decathlon at the Olympics in Athens. At
tennis's French Open, the last Czech in the competition, Denisa Chladkova,
has been knocked out, while Martina Navratilova has ruled out appearing at
Wimbledon after an unsuccessful singles return at Roland Garros. And in
football, the Czech national team play two friendly matches this week as
they continue preparations for Euro 2004.
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For the 8th time in ten years the Prague International Marathon has been
won by a Kenyan; Robert Stefko made marathon history by becoming the first
Czech to make the winners' podium by coming in third; the Czech national
football side has entered its final training phase ahead of Euro 2004; at
least one Czech's name will grace this year's Stanley Cup no matter who
wins.
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The Czech Republic have advanced to the second phase of the World Ice
Hockey Championships, after securing first place in their group with a 5:1
win over Germany in Prague on Wednesday night. The Czech football team,
meanwhile, were beaten in a home friendly by Japan. And boxer Rudolf
Kraj's dreams of a second Olympic medal have been dashed.
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Legendary ice hockey goaltender Dominik Hasek's season is over due to
injury. At 39 can he ever return to the ice? Jaromir Jagr, meanwhile, has
topped a table of the highest earning hockey players of all time. As the
Czech football season resumes, international coach Brueckner will be
missing several key players in a friendly against Italy next week. Young
high-jumper Jaroslav Baba is in fine form, though in the biathlon Katerina
Holubcova has had quite a comedown after becoming world champion last
year.
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Young Czech football star Milan Baros has a broken leg and will miss
Saturday's international against Vienna. However, Baros has joined his
team-mates in Prague and tells us why he thinks the Czechs are doing so
well, how happy he is to see his old club Ostrava on top of the
Czech league and how important it is for him to have another Czech player
at his club, Liverpool. We also have news of rising Czech ice hockey star
Jiri Hudler and Czech tennis number one, Jiri Novak, whose season is
ending poorly.
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Only days after the euphoria of qualifying for Euro 2004, there was bad
news for Czech football fans at the weekend, when star Milan Baros was
seriously injured; his Czech team-mate Vladimir Smicer describes just how
Baros broke his fibula. Sparta Prague have lost to Liberec, just days
before their opening Champions League game against Chelsea. In ice hockey,
the new Extraliga season began badly for champions Slavia and favourites
Pardubice, who both lost on Friday. Vera Pospisilova ended the season on a
high with gold in the discus at the World Athletics Final in Monaco, and
canoeist Martin Doktor took two medals at the Flatwater World
Championships.
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Letter from PragueThe Czech Republic's footballers - unofficial ambassadors to the EU!
You may recall that Radio Prague ran a competition earlier this year in
which we asked who you considered the most interesting Czech, living or
dead. Someone from our Russia section told me something interesting: they
got a few letters in which people chose the Czech football captain, Pavel
Nedved. As almost every single player on the Czech national team plays
abroad, it occurred to me that many people's only connection with the
Czech Republic might be that their favourite team features a Czech player,
be it Petr Cech at French club Rennes, or Patrik Berger at Portsmouth.
Indeed when Vladimir Smicer joined Liverpool - Berger's old club - the
fans had a song which went "he's Czech, he's great, he's Patrik
Berger's mate".
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