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Star winger Jaromir Jagr - the famous No. 68 - signs with Russia's Avangard Omsk; Stepanek goes down in defeat at the Paris Masters; Sparta Prague continues to dominate the Czech football league, though Teplice are now within three; and phenomenal Czech netminder Petr Cech earns his 9th clean sheet this season as his side Chelsea go top of the English Premiership.

In Sports News: Just three weeks after winning the sixth tournament of his career in Tokyo, Czech tennis number one Jiri Novak wins another title, and the biggest money prize of his career; Sparta Prague FC are seven points clear after beating second-placed Olomouc; Sparta ice hockey club are also leading the league; Jaromir Jagr supports the Civic Democrats, but is he thinking of entering politics himself?

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.