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In Sports News this Monday: Czech hopes of reaching the 2010 World Cup
recede further after a 2:2 draw with Slovakia; striker Jan Koller retires
for good after a disappointing game in Bratislava; the unseeded Petra
Kvitová takes a big “scalp” at the US Open – world number one Dinara
Safina; and the Czech ice hockey squad start an “Olympic” season by
winning their first Euro Hockey Tour competition in many years.
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In Sports News: after a top-flight career lasting over two decades, the
great Czech rower Václav Chalupa goes out in style; the Pittsburgh
Penguins’ Petr Sýkora presents ice hockey’s Stanley Cup to fans in
Plzeň; the Czech soccer squad gather ahead of a crucial World Cup
qualifier against Slovakia; and three months after being photographed
buying drugs, Roman Bednář is back – and scoring again – for West
Brom.
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In Sports News this Monday: Czech high jumper Jaroslav Bába is left
frustrated after a poor performance at the World Athletics Championships in
Berlin leaves him joint fifth, while the Czech team’s head trainer quits
after 16 years; Patrik Eliáš becomes Czech ice hockey player of the year
for the first time at 33; and Czech driver Jan Kopecký comes first in the
Barum Rally Zlín.
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In Sports News: the Czech Republic triumphs over Argentina in the
quarterfinals of the Davis Cup; Czech footballer Pavel Nedvěd, recently
retired, turns down offers from Juve, Mourinho, Hašek; cyclist Kreuziger
is in 14th spot after the first nine stages of Tour de France; Knapková
triumphs in Lucerne to become women’s single-scull World Cup Champion;
hockey goalie Hašek is reportedly unhappy over his new helmet.
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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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