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In Sports News: Respected football coach and former player Ivan Hašek is
given a broad mandate as the new chairman of Czech FA; Czech tennis players
Tomáš Berdych and Radek Štepánek make it to the 4th round at Wimbledon;
In hockey, only three Czechs are chosen in the 2009 NHL draft; and Ondřej
Polívka wins the modern pentathlon at the European Championships in
Germany.
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In Sports News this Monday: the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt is in the
Czech Republic for the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava; Czech drivers
Tomáš Enge and Jan Charouz come fourth in the 77th Le Mans 24-hour race;
and Petr Sýkora wins ice hockey’s Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh
Penguins.
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Hockey star Patrik Eliáš: “You can’t get comfortable when you’re at the top”
The Czech hockey team failed to grab a medal at this year’s World
Championship in Switzerland after being eliminated by Sweden in the quarter
finals. The disappointment came despite the fact that the Czech line-up
included several stars of the NHL, arguably the best hockey competition in
the world. One of the players who joined the Czech squad in Switzerland is
Patrik Eliáš, the forward of the New Jersey Devils and our guest in this
week’s edition of One on One.
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In Sports News this Monday: young Czech defender Jan Šimůnek wins the
Bundesliga with Wolfsburg; with Slavia having taken the Czech league title
attention has turned to the fight for second place, with Sparta currently
edging it over Liberec; Robert “Bobby” Holík retires after 18 seasons
in ice hockey’s NHL; and Czech handball star Filip Jícha puts his club
Kiel ahead in the final of the sport’s Champions League.
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In Sports News this Monday: Tomáš Berdych wins his first title of the
season after an epic battle with Russia’s Youzhny in the final of the
Munich Open; with an eight-point lead and only three games to go, Slavia
Prague seem assured of winning the Czech football league again; Czech-born
golfer Alex Čejka squanders the biggest final day lead in the history of
the Players Championship; and questions are being asked about where it went
wrong for the Czechs at the world ice hockey championships.
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In Sports News this Monday: after two defeats, the Czechs bounce back at
the ice hockey world championships, reaching the quarter-finals with a
whopping 8:0 win over Slovakia and overcoming Belarus 3:0; upcoming Czech
cyclist Roman Kreuziger (23) wins the Tour of Romandie; and after a run of
five games without a win, Slavia Prague’s lead at the top of the Czech
football league is shrinking.
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In Sports News this Monday: the Czech women’s tennis team come close to
reaching their first Fed Cup final in over two decades before suffering a
total collapse against the US in the doubles; the Czech Republic make a
solid start at the world ice hockey championships, beating Denmark 5:0;
football goalkeeper Petr Čech makes 13th in a rich list of Premiership
players under 30; and Jakub Smrž reaches the podium in the Superbike World
Championship for the first time in his career.
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Legendary hockey goalie Hašek to play for hometown Pardubice
Dominik Hašek is nothing less than an ice hockey legend – six time
Vezina trophy winner, holder of the Olympic gold and two Stanley Cup rings.
Now, the goaltender nicknamed the Dominator is back. On Tuesday Hašek
confirmed he would return to the ice next season. This time not in the NHL,
but in the Czech Extraliga.
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In Sports News this Monday: the Czech Republic impress in their final game
before the ice hockey World Championships; legendary goaltender Dominik
Hašek, 44, is said to be close to joining home town club Pardubice; the
Czech women’s team prepare to face the US in the Fed Cup semi-finals,
with worries Petra Kvitová may miss the tie through injury; and Zdeněk
Grygera salvages a point for Juve, while Petr Čech reaches the FA Cup at
the end of a nightmare week.
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In Sports News this Tuesday: Karlovy Vary records an historic ice hockey
championship triumph; Slavia draw in the Prague football derby to take
another step towards the title; there’s no rush to fill the Czech
national football manager’s vacant spot; and a Czech tennis player
humbles the mighty Serena Williams.
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