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In Sports News this Monday: Barbora Špotáková qualifies with ease for the javelin final in Berlin – but the title holder is not at all satisfied with her first showing at the World Athletics Championships; nearly 220,000 see Valentino Rossi win the Czech MotoGP in Brno; and the Czech Republic’s David Svoboda comes second at the Modern Pentathlon World Championships for the second year in a row.

It’s mostly football in this week’s sports news: five Czech football clubs get ready for the next round of Europa League play-offs; Chelsea’s Petr Čech saves two spot-kicks in the Community Shield’s penalty shootout; Czech top division’s 3rd round brings underdogs to the top of the table; and the Czech national basketball team beats Hungary in a key relegation battle.

In Sports News this Monday: Sweden’s Oskar Henningsson win’s the Czech Republic’s biggest golf tournament, the Moravia Silesia Open; Roman Kreuziger comes agonisingly close to winning cycling’s Classic San Sebastian; Czech tennis player Lucie Hradecká reaches, and loses, the third WTA final of her career; and favourites Slavia and Sparta have both made an unconvincing start to the Czech football league.

In Sports News this Monday: Roman Kreuziger becomes the first Czech ever to finish in the top ten in cycling’s Tour de France; Slavia and Sparta, the two main contenders for the Czech football league title, draw their opening games – not the best preparation for Champions League qualifiers this week; Pavel Nedvěd says his career is definitely over, at least as far as Europe is concerned; and Tomáš Fučík set a new Czech record in the 100 m backstroke in Rome.

In Sports News this Monday: Sparta Prague will face Panathinaikos yet again for a place in the Champions League group stage – captain Patrik Berger says any opponent in Sparta’s part of the draw was going to be tough; Tomáš Rosický says he is a footballer reborn after his first game in a year and a half; Jan Koller (36) is reportedly ready to come out of international retirement; and Austria’s Sybille Bammer wins tennis’s Prague’s Open.

In Sports News: the Czech Republic triumphs over Argentina in the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup; Czech footballer Pavel Nedvěd, recently retired, turns down offers from Juve, Mourinho, Hašek; cyclist Kreuziger is in 14th spot after the first nine stages of Tour de France; Knapková triumphs in Lucerne to become women’s single-scull World Cup Champion; hockey goalie Hašek is reportedly unhappy over his new helmet.

In Sports News: Football goalkeeper Petr Čech expresses disappointment over Scolari accusation; a ‘triumvirate' of sorts, headed by FA chairman Ivan Hašek, could lead the national football team; disgraced striker Bednář thrown ‘lifeline’ with West Bromwich; Kreuziger is 12th in overall standings in Tour de France.

In Sports News: Respected football coach and former player Ivan Hašek is given a broad mandate as the new chairman of Czech FA; Czech tennis players Tomáš Berdych and Radek Štepánek make it to the 4th round at Wimbledon; In hockey, only three Czechs are chosen in the 2009 NHL draft; and Ondřej Polívka wins the modern pentathlon at the European Championships in Germany.

In Sports News this Monday: Slavia Prague release captain Erich Brabec, despite the fact he helped them lift the league title two seasons in a row; weeks after he played his last game for Juventus, Pavel Nedvěd is said to be considering a one-year deal with Lazio; Lukáš Krpálek takes the second major judo title of his first season at senior level; and Czech cyclist Roman Kreuziger comes third in the Tour of Switzerland.

In Sports News this Monday: the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt is in the Czech Republic for the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava; Czech drivers Tomáš Enge and Jan Charouz come fourth in the 77th Le Mans 24-hour race; and Petr Sýkora wins ice hockey’s Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins.