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Mostly losses
Englishman reflects on a year with the Gambrinus liga's worst team

National team stars consider relegation
With Euro 2008 looming, tourney fuels players' transfer hopes

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SPARTA Following its failure to defend the Gambrinus liga title, the soccer club Sparta Praha is looking for a new head coach to replace the outgoing Michal Bílek. The club’s first choice is Vítězslav Lavička, a former Sparta coach and player who now leads the Under-21 national team. Lavička is expected to decide on the club’s offer in late May.

FOREIGNER Macedonian soccer striker Goce Toleski was named the best foreign player in the Gambrinus liga this season. Toleski started the season in Most and later transferred to champion club Slavia Praha. Other top-ranked foreigners were Liberec’s Andrej Kerič of Croatia and another Slavia player, Mickael Tavares of France.
LEWIS Nine-time Olympic champion Carl Lewis of the United States is set to make his first-ever visit to the Czech Republic. The legendary sprinter will participate in a golf tournament in Slavkov June 6, where he will be promoting the annual Golden Cleat track and field meet, taking place in Ostrava, north Moravia, June 12.
COURIER Another U.S. sports legend scheduled to arrive in the country is former world No. 1 tennis player Jim Courier. He will participate in the Czech Open tennis tournament in Prostějov in early June and will play an exhibition doubles match. Joining him in the match will be retired players Jiří Novák and Karel Nováček and also Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek.
MOUTAINEER Radek Jaroš has successfully completed climbs on two 8,000-meter peaks in the Himalayas this month. First, he reached the summit of Dhaulagiri (8,167 meters), the seventh-highest mountain in the world. Three weeks later on May 21, Jaroš scaled the 8,462-meter Makalu, the fifth-highest peak.
RUČINSKÝ Hockey forward Martin Ručinský, 37, said he is considering retirement. Ručinský, who won three world championship titles and the Olympic gold medal with the national team, was one of the most important players of the “golden generation” of Czech hockey, together with goalie Dominik Hašek and forward Jaromír Jágr. His possible retirement was prompted by his weak NHL season, where he played in merely 40 games with the St. Louis Blues, tallying five goals and 11 assists.
STEEPLECHASE Organizers of the annual Grand Pardubice Steeplechase, one of the world’s most grueling horse races, received a record 27 foreign entries for this year’s race, to be held in Pardubice, east Bohemia, Oct. 12. Overall, applications for 68 horses arrived by the May 15 deadline.
CAMPAIGN Iconic hockey player Jiří Šlégr will become a poster boy for the Social Democratic Party’s pre-election campaign, the daily Lidové noviny reported May 27. A longtime friend of prominent party members including Chairman Jiří Paroubek, Šlégr is now a city councilor in Litvínov, north Bohemia.

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