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08/03/2024
A Czech citizen drowned in Austria's Wolfgangsee Lake on Thursday when he tried to help four children out of the water because of an approaching storm, Austrian public radio and television (ORF) reported. The children were on a paddleboard but the waves were carrying them away. The forty-two-year-old father swam to them but suddenly disappeared in the water. His body was later retrieved by emergency crews. The children were brought to safety by other swimmers.
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08/03/2024
President Petr Pavel and his wife Eva paid a surprise visit to the Olympic Festival at Lake Most in the north of Czechia on Friday. They spent a few hours at the event, delighting fans and trying their hand at archery, fencing and javelin throwing, assisted by Olympic, world and European champion Barbora Špotáková.
The festival, at which visitors can try out various sports as well as root for Czech athletes at the games, runs throughout the games. It has already attracted thousands of people. Some of the Czech athletes in Paris are expected to visit the site toward the end of the Olympics.
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08/03/2024
Czech top officials have hailed the country’s first gold medal in the tennis mixed doubles at the Paris Olympics as a huge success. Congratulations poured in for Kateřina Siniaková and Tomáš Macháč on social networks. "A beautiful end to Friday night with gold for Katerina Siniakova and Tomáš Macháč in the mixed doubles! Congratulations on this huge success," Prime Minister Petr Fiala wrote on the X network. He added that Siniakova is a double Olympic champion, which he considers an extraordinary sporting feat.
Words of praise also poured in for the Czech fencing team which won bronze on Friday night, securing the country’s very first medal at the Olympics.
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08/03/2024
Sunday should be partly cloudy to overcast with rain around the country and day temperatures between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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08/03/2024
A new app will guide users through the underground of Prague Castle which is mostly inaccessible to the public, the ctk news agency reported. The app covers the five most important archaeological areas of the castle and shows users how they have evolved over the centuries. It was produced by experts from the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Department of Heritage Protection of the Office of the President.
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08/03/2024
A travelling open-air exhibition commemorating the renowned Prague writer Franz Kafka is now on display on Prague's Mariánské Square in front of Prague City Hall. The exhibition, featuring texts from Radek Malý's book Franz Kafka: A Man of His and Our Time and brilliant illustrations by Renata Fučíková, was prepared by Czech Centres to mark the centenary of the writer's death. It will remain on show until the end of August.
The interest in it is so big that the panels which were first produced in four world languages, English, French, German and Spanish, were later also translated into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Armenian, Serbian, Polish, Greek, Portuguese and Russian.
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08/03/2024
Regional Development Minister Ivan Bartoš fom the Pirate Party has apologized for persisting problems with the newly digitized system of construction management which has drawn complaints from civil servants around the country. The problems have significantly slowed the processing of construction permits with experts saying that the resulting losses could amount to billions of crowns and make newly constructed housing more expensive. Minister Bartoš apologised on the X network, but maintained that the change had been necessary and would bring benefits in the long run. Digitization in construction management is expected to reduce the construction permit processes from an average of 5.4 years to 1.25 years.
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08/02/2024
Kateřina Siniaková and Tomáš Macháč won gold in the mixed doubles at the Paris Olympics on Friday, securing Czechia’s first gold medal in the games. They beat China’s Zhang Zhizhen and Wang Xinyu in three sets 6:2, 5:7 and 10:8 in a super tie break.
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08/02/2024
Czech fencers Jiří Beran, Michal Čupr, Jakub Jurka and Martin Rubeš have won the bronze at the Paris Olympics, securing the country’s first medal at the games. They defeated the French team 42:41 on Friday evening. Coach Tomáš Jurka said it was a historic moment for Czech fencing. Japan and Hungary will play for the gold.
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08/02/2024
Police have detained a Czech minor who was allegedly involved in the preparation of a terrorist attack during the Rainbow Pride march in Bratislava two weeks ago. The young man, who was detained in Moravia and taken into custody, was a member of an international group that was allegedly planning to attack participants in the event. Slovak police uncovered the plot and subsequently, police officers intervened in several European countries, including Czechia and the US, arrested all the suspects. According to Deník N, which reported on the case the arrested Czech is one of the group’s co-founders.
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