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Football club Sparta Prague extends its lead at the top of the table by defeating defending champions Banik Ostrava; in hockey Pardubice romps over Vitkovice with goals from Czech NHL stars; & Jan Kopecky becomes the youngest Czech rally champion ever

In Sports News: new Czech tennis star Nicole Vaidisova, 15, wins her second WTA title; Czech men's number one Jiri Novak quashes speculation he is planning to retire this year; Sparta beat Slavia in the Prague 'S' football derby and are now looking forward to a Champions League match at home against Man United; Josef Musil becomes the first Czech ever inducted into the volleyball Hall of Fame.

In Sports News: Czech tennis number one Jiri Novak wins the sixth ATP title of his career, the Japan Open; the Czech football team take the first points of their campaign to reach the 2006 World Cup; Tomas Jun scores a hat trick for the Under 21s and receives a debut call-up for the senior squad; Sparta and Ostrava are fined by UEFA; the famous Velka Pardubicka steeplechase is won for the second year in a row by German-trained Registana.

In Sports News: Czech tennis player Berdych wins his first ever ATP tournament, just a fortnight after his 19th birthday; hard man defender Tomas Repka looks set to return to the Czech international football team, though Patrik Berger's agent says the midfielder is unlike to do likewise; leading Czech racing driver Tomas Enge crashes in his first Indy Racing League race.

In Sports News: the Czech Davis Cup team beat Paraguay to stay in the World Group; Martin Kovar is the star of the Czech Paralympics team, with three golds in swimming; Jaromir Jagr scores a hat trick for 'home' club Kladno; Sparta win ahead of their Champions League game against Lyon in Prague; sparks are still flying over the circumstances of Pavel Nedved's retirement from international football; Josef Masopust says Petr Cech should be made Czech captain; decathlete Roman Sebrle ends a great season with another win.

In today's Sports News: the Czech Republic has got off to a good start at the Paralympics in Athens with two gold medals, though a third Czech was stripped of gold after a dispute about her disability categorisation; the highlight of the first weekend of ice hockey's Extraliga was the Prague derby, which was won by Slavia; in football, Sparta Prague extended their lead at the top of the table; several Czech athletes have ended the season with good results.

In Sports News: the Czech Republic were knocked out in the semi-final of the Ice Hockey World Cup by Canada, in one of the most exciting games in years; we hear from Czech star Patrik Elias and a fan who was at the game. Also today: Nedved scores for Juventus while hard man Repka says he wants to play for the national team again; Jan Zelezny is running for chairman of the Czech Olympic Committee; Libor Capalini takes bronze in the modern pentathlon again.

In Sports News: the Ice Hockey World Cup came to Prague last Friday and the Czechs got their first win of the tournament - we talk to Czech stars Jaromir Jagr and Petr Sykora about the team's chances of going further in the tournament; in football, the Czech midfield is in disarray ahead of a World Cup qualifier against Holland; and Czech tennis has a new hero in Tomas Berdych, who has reached the last 16 at the US Open.

In Sports News: the closing weekend of the Athens Olympics was disappointing for the Czech Republic, with Jan Zelezny finishing ninth in the javelin and other athletes narrowly missing out on medals; the Czech ice hockey team are preparing for their opening game at the sport's World Cup; Tomas Galasek looks set to miss the Czech football team's first World Cup qualifier on Wednesday week.

In Sports News: the Czech Republic took three medals at the Olympic Games in Athens on Sunday, as many as they had won in the whole of the first week; a Czech rowing team took silver in the men's coxless quadruple sculls; Lenka Smidova came second in the Europe category to win the country's first ever medal in sailing; Jaroslav Baba, 19, won bronze in the high jump. In other news: Ostrava's Marek Heinz is close to signing with Borussia Monchengladbach, and several Czech footballers made the headlines around Europe.