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TRIUMPH Motorcyclist Lukáš Pešek triumphed in a MotoGP race at the Phillip Island race track in Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 14. It was Pešek’s second win in the 125cc category of the prestigious racing series. Pešek is ranked fourth in the overall standings with only two races remaining.

STEEPLECHASE A white Czech horse named Sixteen, ridden by jockey Dušan Andrés, won the 117th Velká Pardubická steeplechase Oct. 14. It was the first time since 1936 that a white horse took first at the grueling event.
RECORD Jaromír Jágr, captain of the New York Rangers hockey team, has become the leading Czech goal scorer of all time. Jágr scored one goal in the Rangers’ 3-1 defeat to the Ottawa Senators Oct. 13, notching the 796th goal in his career. Jagr dethroned Václav Nedomanský, a Czech émigré in Canada who scored 795 goals in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
RETURN The Czech Republic’s second-best tennis player, Radek Štěpánek, has confirmed that he will play in the Davis Cup team competition next season. Štěpánek had refused to play in the Davis Cup for the past three years before returning for a match against Switzerland in late September. He won the meet’s final singles match against Stanislas Wawrinka, securing the Czech team’s spot in the 16-member elite World Group.
SQUASH The world’s No. 1 woman squash player, Nicole David of Malaysia, could soon join the Czech Republic’s top squash division. The reigning world champion is reportedly negotiating with a squash club in Brno, south Moravia.
KOLLER Jan Koller, a striker for the Czech national soccer team, has said that he may join the Bohemians 1905 soccer club in Prague next season, once his contract with the French team AS Monaco has expired. Koller, the national team’s all-time leading scorer, has played in the past with Sparta Praha. He left the Czech league in 1995 for Belgium’s Lokeren, where he became a renowned scorer and began his international career. Netting Koller would be a coup for the Bohemians, which returned to the top division this year after recovering from bankruptcy.


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