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In Sports News this Monday: Roman Kreuziger comes an impressive 13th in his first Tour de France; Tomáš Necid is top scorer at football’s Under 19 Euros; Slavia prepare for the resumption of the Czech league with a win over Iran; Karel Bruckner, 70 next year, takes over as Austrian national manager; and reigning Olympic decathlon champion Roman Šebrle pulls out of an exhibition event but should be fit for Beijing.

In Sports News this Monday: Tomáš Dvořák fails to complete the final decathlon of a successful career blighted by injury; cyclist Roman Kreuziger is 14th overall in his first Tour de France – and second in the Under 25s category; Petr Čech signs an improved deal that should keep him at Chelsea until 2013; Tomáš Rosický targets a September return; and the Czech Under 19s reach the semi-finals at their European Championship.

In Sports News this Monday: Czech pole vault record holder Kateřina Baďurová leaves it late to qualify for the Olympics; Barbora Špotáková is looking good ahead of Beijing after a Grand Prix win in Athens; young Czech cyclist Roman Kreuziger remains with the leading pack in the Tour de France – and third overall in the under 25 category; and a knee injury does for Tomáš Berdych in the final of tennis’s Swedish Open.

Hockey’s Jaromír Jágr is bound for Russia after an illustrious career in the NHL; future Hall of Famer Dominik Hašek touches down in Czech Rep; Football’s Saturn Moscow eye Czech striker Václav Svěrkoš; the Czech Olympic team readies for Beijing; Kreuziger 37th after first two stages of cycling’s Tour de France.

In Sports News this Monday: Radek Štěpánek is so frustrated at going out in the third round at Wimbledon that he breaks six rackets; Nicole Vaidišová enjoys something of a return to form at the tournament; Jaromír Jagr is considering his future as his contract with New York Rangers comes to an end; and the Czech football association make an embarrassing claim that Gerard Houllier wants the job of Czech coach, while Klaus Toppmoller’s wage demands could rule him out.

In Sports News: the search for a new Czech soccer manager goes on after the widely respected Ivan Hašek turns down the job, citing differences with the leadership of the Czech football association; the Czech ice hockey team, by contrast, have got a new boss, after Vladimír Růžička is given a contract that should see him at the helm until after the 2010 Winter Olympics; and Roman Kreuziger’s win in the Tour of Switzerland is one of the Czech Republic’s greatest successes in cycling.

In this Monday’s Sports News: the Czech Republic crash out of Euro 2008 in a scarcely believable manner, as their last Group A game against Turkey turns into a living nightmare in the last 15 minutes; Czech captain Tomas Ujfaluši says he and his team-mates were short on luck, and energy; meanwhile, manager Karel Bruckner – in charge for the final time – rues the Czechs’ inability to deal with a period of Turkish pressure.

In Sports News this Monday: the Czech Republic’s footballers get off to a winning start at the European Championship with a 1:0 victory over the Swiss, though there is much room for improvement – Petr Čech gives his verdict on the performance; ice hockey great Dominik Hašek is said to be ready to announce his retirement at the age of 43; and Dukla win the Prague Primátorky rowing race – for the 29th time in a row.

In Sports News this Monday: the Czech Republic complete their preparations for Euro 2008 with a solid 3:1 win over Scotland – we speak to two-goal man-of-the-match Libor Sionko; Radek Štěpánek and the rather less well known Petra Kvitová make it to week two at the French Open; and a goal from young Czech ice hockey star Jiří Hudler brings Detroit to within one win of the NHL’s Stanley Cup.

In Sports News: the bad results keep coming for Nicole Vaidišová, who was knocked out in her first match at the French Open – her fifth first-round exit in a row; the Czech football squad are preparing for Euro 2008 warm-up games against Lithuania and Scotland, though with Tomáš Rosický out of action, questions remain over their most effective line-up – and who should wear the captain’s armband; and Vítězslav Lavička looks set to take the hottest seat in Czech domestic football, the manager’s job at Sparta Prague.