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In Sports News: Liberec win Czech football title; Arsenal, with Czech
midfielder Tomáš Rosický, have secured a spot in next year’s Champions
League; Chimsa, Kiprop win Prague International Marathon while legendary
footballer Pavel Nedvěd also takes part; the Czech national hockey team
wins over Italy but loses to Russia in group stage action at the World
Championship in ice hockey; Czech tennis player Berdych loses to Federer in
Madrid final. More
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In Sports News: Holuša clinches lone Czech medal at the World Indoor
Championships; Plzeň have jumped to 2:0 lead in the Česká pojišotvna
playoffs; in the NHL, Vokoun and Neuwirth both earn shutouts; footballer
Tomáš Rosický has re-signed with Arsenal. More
Emil Zátopek: a Czech sporting hero
The early 1950s in Czechoslovakia was a bleak period in the country’s
history, but there was also some escape from politics. In 1952 the Summer
Olympics were held in the Finnish capital Helsinki and the undisputed hero
of the games was the greatest Czech runner of all time, Emil Zátopek.
Despite his extraordinary style, with his face contorted, his head and
torso swinging, and emitting sounds that earned him the nickname of “the
Czech locomotive”, he went to Helsinki having already twice broken the
world record over 20 kilometres. His dream at the Olympics was to win two
gold medals: in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres. Czechoslovak Radio’s Bohuš
Ujček and Vítězslav Mokroš were there to report on the event. More
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Decathlete Roman Šebrle finishes in disappointing 13th place in the World
Athletics Championships; pole-vaulters Jiřina Ptáčníková and Jan
Kudlička advance to finals; Judo wrestler Lukáš Krpálek wins the bronze
medal at the world championships in Paris; in football Lafata earns
second-straight hat-trick; Man U destroy Arsenal. More
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In Sports news this week: two Czechs take points in the motorcycle racing
world championship; European Under 23 Championships concludes in Ostrava;
Czech women’s tennis team will play Germany in the first round of Fed
Cup; and hockey legend Jaroslav Jiřík dies in plane crash. More
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Kreuziger takes a historic sixth place in the Giro d'Italia; French Open
remains a dream for Petra Kvitová, who lost the fourth round to Li Na;
the Czech women’s basketball team beats Russia to win the Karlovy Vary
Grand Prix; and Bolt is back for the Golden Spike Ostrava, and having a go
at golf. More
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The Czech hockey team continues streak at the World Championships with wins
over Slovakia and Russia; Czech tennis player Kvitová breaks into the
women’s top ten for the first time; League-leaders Plzeň defeat Mladá
Boleslav to retain three point lead over Sparta; defending Premier League
champions Petr Čech and Chelsea suffer defeat against Manchester United;
Kenyan runners dominate Prague International Marathon. More
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In Sports News this week: the Czech Republic goes down in defeat at the
tennis Davis Cup; Czechs bring home two golds, a silver and a bronze from
the European indoor championships; in hockey, the season’s playoff-offs
quarterfinals continue; and in football, Sparta narrow the gap behind
league leaders Plzeň. More
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In Sports News this Monday: Six months after being crowned world champions,
the Czech Republic’s ice hockey players fail to take a single point in
their first tournament of the new season; the gap at the top of the Czech
football league narrows, after leaders Plzeň are held to a draw and Sparta
win; Olympic champion speed skater Sáblíková is for once halted by
illness; and warm weather brings a high turnout for Prague’s Velká
Kunratická cross country race. More
Špotáková looking forward to working more closely with javelin legend Železný after injury-blighted season
The reigning Olympic javelin champion Barbora Špotáková came first in
the international Diamond League this year, but could only manage bronze at
the European Championships in Barcelona. Following a season blighted by
injuries, the 29-year-old announced last month she was parting
company with her trainer – and planning to work with javelin legend Jan
Železný. When I spoke to Špotáková this week, I asked the athletics
star if it was true there had been a link between her training schedule and
her injury problems.
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