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in the latest Sport newsfilter you will read about:
- how they reacted to the Slovak nomination in Sweden;
- how Trump attacked transgender athletes;
- a viral video of a tennis player who can’t play tennis;
- fired coaches in the Premier League.
The winner of the week is the Kapustík siblings, the defeated Crystal Palace footballers.
The sports newsfilter is always published at the beginning of the week and we also send it by e-mail in the form of a newsletter.
The author of the first point is Štefan Bugan, the second Pavol Kliment, the third Jana Sedláková and the fourth Zoran Boškovič.
1. This could not happen in Sweden
When Prime Minister Robert Fico traveled to Vladimir Putin for the first time since the full-scale war against Ukraine, many people were appalled. When he repeated it over and over again, it was just a standard that doesn’t surprise anyone, but many are saddened by it.
It is similar with the KHL players in the national team. No one is as surprised as they were two years ago when they were called for the first time.
Public opinion in Slovakia is not swayed, opinions are clearly profiled. Either you think representing these players is fine and you are in the majority (52 percent), or you consider it immoral and you are in the minority (28 percent).
There are so many serious things happening in the world that it would be naive to think that someone abroad is overly concerned with the nomination of Slovak hockey players.
However, from time to time someone reminds us that in his country calling such players would be a shame. Last year at the World Championships it was the Latvian defender Ralfs Freibergs, now the long-time Swedish official and former spokesperson of the IIHF Szymon Szemberg spoke.
Reaction from Sweden. Szemberg is critical he commented the nomination of coach Vladimír Országh and general manager Miroslav Šatan on the X social network:
