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The Czech Republic came third at the Ice Hockey World Championship in Finland on Sunday. A storming comeback win over the United States gave the Czechs their first medal at a major tournament in 10 long years – bronze that players say feels like gold.

Viktoria Plzeň have been crowned Czech soccer champions for the sixth time in their history. The West Bohemian club have surprised many – even their own coach – with their first title since 2018.

Perhaps the most famous Czech ice hockey player ever, Jaromír Jágr, is celebrating his 50th birthday this Tuesday. To mark the occasion, coin maker České dukáty and the State Printing Works of Securities (STC) are printing a total of 10,000 special banknotes featuring Jágr and paying tribute to the many international successes that the golden generation of Czech ice hockey achieved at the turn of the millennium.

Martina Sáblíková has secured another medal for the Czech Republic at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. On Thursday, the Czech speed skating sensation won the bronze in the women’s 5,000 meter race. It is already the seventh Olympic medal for Sáblíková from four consecutive Winter Games.

Ester Ledecká won the Czech Republic’s first gold medal at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games on Tuesday after dominating the Women's snowboard parallel giant slalom. It is the third Olympic gold medal overall for the 26-year-old, who also won in the same category and in the women’s Super-G event at the previous Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.

Many Czechs will be glued to their screens in the coming weeks, with the Winter Olympics due to get underway in Beijing on Friday. Among the country’s medal hopefuls is Ester Ledecká, whose unprecedented success was the biggest story at the last games four years ago.

Czech Republic’s doubles duo Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková won their fourth Grand Slam title on Sunday after a beating Kazakstan's Anna Danilina and Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia in a three set final battle for the Australian Open title.

This year marks 130 years since the appearance of the first skis in the Giant Mountains. Count Harrach, a local nobleman, had them brought from Austria in 1892 to be used by his foresters. Skiing quickly took off and started to spread all around the country, becoming a popular national pastime.

A group of Czech senators have publicly expressed their support for the visiting Tibetan filmmaker and former political prisoner Dhondup Wangchen’s appeal to boycott the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Tibetan film director is currently touring Europe to highlight human rights issues in China in the context of the Olympics.

The Czech snowboard cross star Eva Samková suffered a major injury at the weekend, breaking both of her ankles during a competition in Austria. The question now is whether the popular sportswoman has any chance of making the Winter Olympics in Beijing in just two months’ time.

Czech tennis duo Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková have won this year’s WTA Finals women’s doubles tournament in Mexico after beating Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens 6:3 and 6:4 in the final. The victory means that Kateřina Siniaková will end the season as world number one in the doubles category and comes as a perfect finish for the duo, which won gold at the Tokio Olympics as well as the French Open earlier this year.

Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský is in advanced talks to buy a 27 percent stake in the London-based English Premier League club West Ham United. There are also rumours based on sources close to the Czech businessman that he may aim to eventually buy a majority stake in the club. But is the Czech billionaire really in it just for the football? And what kind of an owner would he be?

The first ever edition of the Billie Jean King Cup, which replaces tennis’s Fed Cup, got underway in Prague on Monday. Why the change? And what has made the Czech women’s team so dominant in international tournaments at different times?

Last Thursday’s Europa League game between Glasgow Rangers and Sparta Prague on Letná Stadium ended in fresh accusations of racism –this time from 10,000 Czech schoolchildren - and a diplomatic spat between the two countries. The Czech foreign minister summoned the British ambassador to Prague to protest against insults in the British press directed against Czech schoolchildren, while Rangers is pushing UEFA to take a tougher stance on what it calls “a war on racism”. I spoke to sports journalist Jiří Hošek about the escalation in tensions and began by asking him to explain the reason why the stadium was full of child spectators.  

The town of Vysoké Mýto was always a sports town. One of the first tennis clubs in our country was established there, but long before that the Association of Czech Cyclists and Travelers was organizing regular group trips around the country on penny-farthings and veteran bikes.

Martin Loužecký is a long-time skateboarding enthusiast and a graduate in African Studies from the University of Copenhagen. While still a student, he and his friends established a non-profit organization called Skate World Better, which aims to support children and young adults in Africa through skateboarding. So far, they have built three skateparks in Africa and they plan to continue.

The Czech Republic’s volleyball players achieved a sensational victory on Monday evening, overcoming recent Olympic champions France in the sport’s European Championships in Ostrava. What’s more, the Czechs didn’t allow the French even one set on their way to the competition’s quarterfinals.

Passing through rigourous coronavirus safety measures, more than two-dozen Czech atheletes have set out for Tokyo to compete in the Tokyo Paralympic Games, which will kick-off with an opening ceremony on Monday. Among the paralympic team are medal holders from the previous paralympic games in Rio de Janeiro eager to defend their titles.

It has been a week to forget for Czech football clubs in Europe. Domestic champions Slavia Prague and Sparta Prague were both knocked out in qualifying for the lucrative Champions League, while Jablonec failed to make the Europe League group stage and Viktoria Plzeň narrowly avoided defeat in qualifiers for the third-tier Conference League. I spoke to football journalist Karel Häring.

More than a hundred vintage cars embarked from the centre of Prague on early Thursday morning on a three-day journey to the Slovak capital Bratislava and back. The “Thousand Miles of Czechoslovakia” tour, which dates back to 1933, is organised by the Veteran Car Club in Prague and covers some 1,300 kilometres.