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In this week's Sports News: the Czech Olympic women’s basketball team
suffers defeat by China; cancer survivor and badminton player Petr Koukal
loses his first two Olympics matches; tennis star Tomáš Berdych crashes
out of the Olympics; Petra Kvitová survives an early scare; the Czech
women's beach volleyball duo fight back to secure victory and Jakub
Voráček signs a four year contract with NHL team Philadelphia Flyers. More
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In this week's Sports News: Dominik Hašek is named the greatest ever
European ice hockey player; Czech Záhlavová-Strýcová is beaten in the
Italiacom Open finals; Czech Olympic javelin hopeful performs in
pre-Olympic tournament; police close the case of death of Rally Bohemia
navigator and Czech wins third stage in Tour de Pologne cycle competition.
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In this week's Sports News, Petra Kvitová to play crucial fourth round
match at Wimbledon; Czech players on the move in the NHL; two local
ice-hockey teams form a business partnership; five medals for Czechs at
the
European Athletics Championships and the national women's basketball team
qualifies at the eleventh hour for the London Olympics. More
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In Sports News this Monday: Czechs lose to Russia at Euro 2012; in tennis,
Petra Kvitová falls short of reaching French Open final; young athlete
sets new national heptathlon record and qualifies for the Olympics, and in
hockey, three Czech players keep hopes alive of winning the Stanley Cup. More
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In Sports News: the Czech national football team arrives in Poland ahead of
Euro 2012; in hockey, the L.A. Kings have won the first two games of
Stanley Cup finals against the New Jersey Devils, lessening the chance the
cup will travel to the Czech Republic this year; in tennis, world No. 4
Petra Kvitová and fellow Czech player Klára Zakopalová have both made it
to the fourth round at the French Open. More
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In Sports News: Eleven days before the start of Euro 2012, football coach
Bílek makes final change to national team roster; in related news, the
coach will head the national squad at least until the summer of 2014; Czech
swimmer Petra Chocová takes gold the European Swimming Championships in
Hungary; cyclist Kreuziger finishes in disappointing 15th spot in Giro
d’Italia; press suggests Leafs could pick-up hockey goalie Vokoun. More
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In Sports News: Star goalie Petr Čech becomes just the fourth Czech in
football history to win the Champions League; national squad captain
Rosický should be fit in time for Euro 2012; in hockey, the Czech national
team wins bronze at the Ice Hockey World Championships. More
Czech Republic beats Sweden to advance to semi-finals in Ice Hockey World Championship
It was a dramatic game: a last-minute goal by Milan Michálek some 30
seconds before the end of the match against Sweden on Thursday brought the
Czechs the victory they needed to advance to the semi-finals in this
year’s Ice Hockey World Championship. The Czech 4:3 result also marks the
first time in 12 years that Sweden will not be playing in the semifinals.
In the next match, the Czech Republic faces its neighbor Slovakia. While
this is the third time that the Czechs will be competing for a spot in the
finals, this year’s solid performance of the Slovak team has come as a
surprise. Ahead of Friday’s match, we spoke to daily Mladá fronta dnes
hockey expert Karel Knap. More
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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
Hockey specialist: Czech team at worlds has been underwhelming, will have to dig deep
The Czech national hockey team has not been firing on all cylinders so far
at the Ice Hockey World Championships hosted by Sweden and Finland. In
three games, it won twice and lost once, but each match was a struggle, the
last – against Denmark – came down to penalty shots. Can the squad turn
things around moving forward – putting together a faster, more dynamic
game? More
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