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07/07/2024
On Sunday rain once again caused difficulties for Czech tennis players at Wimbledon.
Kateřina Siniaková and her US partner Taylor Townsend's round of 16 match against Canada's Leylah Annie Fernandez and Japan's Ena Shibahara was postponed several times from its original start time in the early afternoon. Meanwhile Barbora Krejčíková and her German doubles partner Laura Siegemund's second-round match against the American duo of Alycia Parks and Hailey Baptiste was suspended during the second set due to the inclement weather. However, at the time the match was put on hold, Krejčíková and Siegemund were leading 6-3, 3-2.
On Monday, Krejčíková will face the American Danielle Collins in the women's singles round of 16 to fight for a place in the quarterfinals.
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07/07/2024
Monday is expected to be overcast with a chance of showers. Daytime temperatures should range between 19 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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07/07/2024
Four baby capybaras were born at Prague Zoo on Sunday morning, the zoo's director Miroslav Bobek told the Czech News Agency. However, one of them, which the parents left in the inner part of the enclosure while going outside with the other three, is unlikely to survive.
The capybara, native to South America, is the largest living rodent on Earth. Prague Zoo acquired the parents of the new litter of capybara pups last autumn, the female from Germany and the male from Denmark. Prior to that, there hadn't been any capybaras in the zoo since the 2013 floods, but the zoo decided to start keeping them again due to their immense popularity.
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07/07/2024
A record 50,000 people came out to watch the headline closing act, world-famous French DJ David Guetta, at the electronic dance music festival Beats for Love in Ostrava on Saturday night. More than 162,000 people attended the festival this year over the course of four days of programming, beating the previous record of 160,000 from 2022, the organisers said on Sunday. According to festival director Kamil Rudolf, they were helped by the fact that they were able to significantly increase capacity and sell more tickets for the festival's tenth anniversary this year.
Beats for Love touts itself as the biggest music festival in the Czech and Slovak Republics and the best electronic dance music festival in Central Europe.
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07/07/2024
The Czech women's volleyball team have made it through to the elite Nations League for the first time after winning the Challenger Cup in Manila on Sunday. The Czechs beat Puerto Rico 3:1 in four sets of 25:23, 25:20, 18:25 and 25:18 in the final of the qualifying tournament in the Philippines. They will now compete against 17 other national teams next season in the 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League.
This is the Czech team's third attempt at winning the Challenger Cup. In 2019 in Peru, they lost 2:3 to Canada in the final, and in 2022 they got knocked out in the quarterfinal, losing to Belgium.
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07/07/2024
A new cultural and leisure centre is set to open on the site of the former railway station Praha-Bubeneč in Prague 6. The former station building on the western edge of the popular Stromovka Park is being repurposed as a multifunctional space including a bistro, gallery, and hall where concerts, exhibitions, sports, debates and other community events can take place. The new centre, named Stanice 6 (Station 6), is due to open on 28 August, 10 years to the day since the last train stopped at the station.
The Prague 6 district, which manages the site, says this is the first time a railway station building in Prague has been permanently remodelled for a different use.
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07/07/2024
The Crystal Globe for Best Film at the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival went to the British documentary A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things by Northern Irish director Mark Cousins. His portrait of the Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, exploring her pivotal 1949 experience on Switzerland's Grindelwald glacier that reshaped the British modernist painter's artistic perspective, beat 11 other contenders in the competition to bag the top prize at the gala closing ceremony on Saturday evening. The trophy also comes with a USD 25,000 cash prize and is awarded to both the film's director and producer equally.
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07/06/2024
Temperature records for July 6 were broken at 11 out of 165 weather stations in Czechia on Saturday, mostly in Prague and Central Bohemia. The highest recorded temperature was 34.3 degrees Celsius in Prague's Libuš district.
Towards the evening the hot weather was replaced by heavy thunderstorms coming from the west, causing trees to fall on railway tracks and roads. In Prague's Braník district, a tree fell on two people during the storm, seriously injuring one of them, a 30-year-old man. The Prague fire service was called out to deal with 12 incidents relating to the weather.
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07/06/2024
Sunday is expected to see more rain and grey skies, with daytime temperatures of around 19 degrees Celsius.
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07/06/2024
Czech tennis player Barbora Krejčíková has advanced to the round of 16 at Wimbledon for the second time in her career. She won against Spain's Jessica Bouzas 6-0, 4-3 on Saturday after the Spaniard dropped out due to a back injury. Krejčíková will next play the American Danielle Collins on Monday for a place in the quarterfinals.
In the women's doubles, Krejčíková's former partner Kateřina Siniaková and the American Taylor Townsend beat France's Elixane Lechemia and the Australian Olivia Gadecki 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 in the second round on Saturday after resuming play. The match was suspended on Friday in the first set due to bad weather.
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