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In Sports News this Monday: the national football squad suffers a debacle
against Denmark in World Cup qualifying; striker Matěj Vydra is named
Championship Player of the Year; speed skater Sáblíková clinches her 10th
career gold at the Worlds; hockey club Slavia win the opener of their
semi-final series against Plzeň. More
Sports News
In Sports News: ‘ironman’ Tomáš Berdych sees Czechs through to
quarterfinals of the Davis Cup; ski jumper Matura wins bronze and silver in
front of home crowd; Kuba celebrates 800th match in NHL; Plzeň put a stop
to Sparta's winning streak; and goalie Petr Mrázek may see his NHL debut. More
Sports News
In Sports News: Czech figure skater Michal Březina clinches bronze at the
European Figure Skating Championships in Zagreb; speed skater Karolína
Erbanová improved her own Czech record at the World Sprint Speed Skating
Championships in Salt Lake City; in tennis Radek Štepánek will miss the
opening round of the Davis Cup; Prague football club Slavia celebrates
120th anniversary. More
Sports News
In Sports News this Monday: Ski jumper Matura tops the World Cup podium for
the first time after nearly 170 attempts; Berdych reaches the
quarter-finals in Melbourne; Jágr enjoys a dream start at new club Dallas;
and striker Vydra now has 16 goals in 23 games for Watford. More
Sports News
In Sports News: Czech skier Lukáš Bauer comes in second in the Czech
Republic’s biggest cross-country skiing event, the Jizerská padesátka;
speed skater Sáblíková is closed out of the medals at the European
Allround Speed Skating championships; Berdych, four other Czech tennis
players advance, clinch opening round wins at Australian Open; legendary
hockey forward Jaromír Jágr has trained for the first time with new club
the Dallas Stars. More
Sports News
In Sports News this Monday: The end of the NHL lockout means an exodus of
stars from the Czech Extraliga – Jaromír Jágr says “it’s been
great”, while the Kladno coach says the players’ presence did a lot for
the domestic game; Lukáš Bauer is weighing up participation in the
Jizerská padesátka after a tough Tour de Ski; and Petra Kvitová’s
season has got off to a poor start. More
Ája Vrzáňová-Steindler: Former ice skating world champion recalls 1950s defection – and much more
Ája Vrzáňová-Steindler is a remarkable woman. Now aged 81, she was
twice crowned world figure skating champion, in 1949 and 1950, while still
in her teens. Immediately after taking her second world title, she won
political asylum in the U.K., before moving to the United States, where she
has spent much of her life. Her mother soon followed her to the West – in
a dramatic escape on one of three civilian planes simultaneously hijacked
by their pilots and flown to an airbase near Munich. Her father, however,
remained in Czechoslovakia. More
Sports News
In Sports News: Czech hockey club Pardubice win Game 2, evening their
semi-final series against Liberec at one apiece; in the NHL, Tomáš
Fleischmann scores, earns assist for the Florida Panthers; football club
Sparta Prague are a meagre point ahead of second-place Liberec, leaving the
season title up-for-grabs; Martina Sablíková wins the 5,000 metres at the
World Championships. More
Sports News
In this weeks sports news, spectator scuffles stop play in a weekend
Gambrinus Liga match; Czech long-distance speed-skater Martina Sáblíková
wins silver in Moscow; the Czech paralympic movement settles a long-running
internal dispute and ice-hockey sensation Jaromír Jágr’s many millions. More
Sports News
In this weeks sports news, the Czech Republic progresses to the Davis Cup
quarter finals; the national hockey team sees one debacle and one triumph;
Czech basketball player Jan Veselý helps his NBA team to victory and ski
jumper Roman Koudelka scores a career-best jump. More
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