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In Sports News this Monday: tennis player Radek Štěpánek wins his first tournament of the year, and the third ATP title of his career; Nicole Vaidišová is no longer Czech number one; Olympic javelin champion Barbora Špotáková is named Czech sportsperson of the year; and Martina Sáblíková makes a great comeback to take bronze at the European Speed Skating Championships.

In Sports News this Monday: last season’s winner of cross country skiing’s Tour de Ski, Lukáš Bauer, comes 11th this time out, his hopes of at least a top five finish ending with an asthma attack in the penultimate race; Šárka Záhrobská finishes third in a slalom event in Zagreb; the Czech Republic end up coming sixth at ice hockey’s junior World Championship in Canada; and truck driver Aleš Loprais receives help from a Czech rival on day two of the Dakar Rally.

In Sports News: ahead of the Tour de Ski’s arrival in Prague, last year’s winner Lukáš Bauer gets off to a less-than-ideal start in the first stage in Germany; the Czech Republic are demolished by hosts Canada in their first game at ice hockey’s World Under 20 Championship, before narrowly losing to the US; goaltender Stanislav Neruda makes a splash in the Extraliga at the age of 34; and striker Roman Bednář gets his sixth goal of the season to help West Brom beat Spurs in the Premier League.

In Sports News this Monday: the Czech Republic’s ice hockey players come third in Moscow’s Channel One Cup, with a show of indiscipline costing them dear in their closing game against the Finns; goaltender Milan Hnilička takes a break from the Extraliga due to exhaustion; New Jersey’s Patrik Eliáš extends his points streak to nine games; footballer Milan Baroš scores another hat-trick for Galatasaray to take his league tally to 14, while Roman Bednář’s goal for West Brom sinks Man City.

In Sports News this Monday: heartbreak for the Czech Republic as they lose in a game to decide third spot in the Floorball World Championship in front of over 13,000 fans in Prague – their coach says they can be proud of their participation in the “best championship in history”; skier Šárka Záhrobská records her second best finish of the season in the Slalom World Cup; and Czech football legend Pavel Nedvěd dismisses reports he is preparing to sign a new deal that would keep him at Juventus for one more season.

In Sports News this Monday: the Czech Republic come close to a famous result in Ostrava at the Floorball World Championships, eventually succumbing to the near-invincible Swedes; despite something of a fall in the world rankings, Tomáš Berdych gets the Golden Canary award for Czech tennis player of the year; and a motor rally in Prague ends in tragedy.

In Sports News this Monday: Skier Šárka Záhrobská wins the first World Cup slalom event of her career; reigning World Cup winner Lukáš Bauer comes second in his second race of the season; Slavia Prague enter the winter break with a six-point lead in the Czech football league; and goalkeeper Daniel Zítka is (literally) dropped after breaking his leg in a game for club Anderlecht.

In Sports News this Monday: reigning champion Lukáš Bauer comes ninth in the first meeting of this season’s cross country skiing World Cup, though he does rather better as part of the Czech relay team; figure skater Tomáš Verner finishes second in a Grand Prix event in Moscow; Barbora Špotáková takes the IAAF award for female performance of the year for her javelin world record; Slavia Prague are eight points clear at the top of the Czech football league; and 19-year-old striker Tomáš Necid now has 11 goals in 15 games.

In Sports News this Monday: Olympic champion and javelin world record holder Barbora Špotáková is, entirely predictably, named Czech Athlete of the Year; Slavia Prague get off to a losing start in the UEFA Cup group stage – Aston Villa’s Gareth Barry tells us it was a game of two halves; and the Czech Republic’s ice hockey players finish second in Finland’s Karjala Cup.

In Sports News this Monday: the Czech Republic’s handball team scores a famous victory over the Olympic champions France in a European Championships qualifier in Brno; the Czech Republic play Slovakia on Tuesday in a friendly game to mark 100 years of ice hockey in this part of the world; in football, Slavia concede their first goal at Eden this season, though two strikes from wonder-boy Necid gives them a 2:1 win over Brno; and the greatest Czech sumo wrestler ever calls it a day.