As soon as the Tokyo Summer Olympics took place in 2021 and the Euro football spread across the “old” continent, both of which were postponed due to Covidid-19 in 2020, more events are underway for sports fans under five interconnected circles and more. football championship.

The Winter Olympics should start in Beijing on February 4. At the very end of 2022, FIFA timed the World Championships organized by Qatar. However, due to the local climatic conditions, the tournament will not take place in the summer, when the weather in this corner of the world is too warm. The goals will start falling on November 21 and we should know the new world champion just 6 days before Christmas Day.

Whether and Czech football representatives will secure memories of Qatar under the tree will be decided in the March play-offs, in which Schick, Souček et al. they had to defeat the Swedish team first and, if successful, of the Russia-Poland pair.

In 2022, the top events of basketball players and rowers will be closest to Czech sports fans. One of the Eurobasket group tournaments will take place at the O2 arena in Prague at the beginning of September, and the World Rowing Championships will be welcomed by Račice on 18-25. September 2022.

The location of gigantic events in China and Qatar contains a number of controversies. In the context of the People’s Republic of China, its communist regime is often criticized for trampling on basic human rights and tormenting members of the Uighur ethnic minority, who profess Islam, in “re-education” camps.

In connection with this, for example, US President Joe Biden has already announced a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. This means that the country’s political leaders will not go to China in connection with this sporting event. Japan and Australia, for example, represent a similar one or Canada. In the Czech Republic, the Senate, the upper house of the Parliament, called for such an approach in the autumn.

As for the sporting events in the Beijing Olympics, it has saddened hockey fans before Christmas that hockey players from the Canadian-American NHL will not live up to their original expectations. The reason is the covidu-19 pandemic.

At first, NHL hockey players feared that if they tested positive for covid, they could remain blocked in China for several weeks due to quarantine. In the end, it was decided to spread the covid mutation of omicron in North America. This led to the NHL’s Christmas break, which will cause the program to accumulate in this competition. Therefore, on the 22nd of December, the final decision was made that the hockey players from the NHL would not go to China for the Olympic Games.

David Pastrňák, Jakub Voráček and other stars will definitely miss the Czech team in Beijing. Coach Filip Pešán will have to make do with players who work in European competitions, especially in the predominantly Russian KHL. Of course, the coaches of other teams, who originally counted on the NHL players, are in a similar situation.

The novelty is the fact that for the first time in history, two Czech hockey teams will score goals under five circles. In addition to men, Czech women, led by coach Tomáš Pacina, also managed to fight their way to Beijing. Hockey player Karolína Erbanová, who won bronze in speed skating at the Olympic Games in Korea four years ago, could also fit in the nomination.

He broke up with Erbanová and coach Petr Novák in a bad way, and now he is resolving his financial disputes with the speed skating association. At the Olympic Games, however, he will lead his most famous charges, Martina Sáblíková, into battle again. At the age of 34, the six-time Olympic medalist will try to expand her collection.

The biggest medal chances are attributed to Ester Ledecká. She defends the fascinating golden “harvest” of Pyongyangu, where she triumphed in two different sports: in the ski Super G and also in the parallel giant slalom on a snowboard.

Especially on the “board” the Ledecká queen remains, but in the meantime between the Olympic Games she has settled in the absolute top of the ski speed disciplines. She should also start in combination at the Olympic Games 2022.

Fans will also have high hopes for the new Czech biathlon star. Markéta Davidová is the reigning world champion in the endurance race, she will have medal ambitions in other disciplines as well. And one of her colleagues can also pleasantly surprise, whether in individual races or relays.

Czech snowboardcross champion Eva Samková a few weeks before the Olympic Games, she broke both ankles.

Like China, Qatar’s many controversies include the 2022 World Cup. The scandal was accompanied by a tournament that is less traditional and where football is less traditional than falconry and camel racing.

In connection with the assignment of World Cup 2018 to Russia and World Cup 2022 to Qatar, a major investigation has been launched within and outside FIFA, gradually revealing the possible corruption that has been attributed to these tournaments. Sepp Blatter, FIFA’s top official at the time, is still under investigation in this regard.

The allocation of the tournament to Qatar has also provoked debates about the date of the tournament. Due to climatic conditions, it was postponed to the end of the year, which breaks the schedules of national league competitions. In particular, the British media are constantly drawing attention to the high number of fatalities among wage workers from Bangladesh and other poor Asian countries. In Qatar, they are involved, among other things, in the construction of stadiums for the World Cup.

In addition to the home team in Qatar, teams from Germany, Denmark, Brazil, France, Belgium, Croatia, Spain, Serbia, England, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Argentina have already qualified for the tournament. A total of 32 countries will start in the tournament.

The Czech Republic is among those who still retain a chance to advance. Thanks to his placement in the League of Nations, he got into a European playoff, which will be played by 12 countries and 3 of them will advance to the tournament. Los decided that coach Šilhavý’s team will play on March 24 in Sweden. If he succeeds, he will go to Russia or Poland a few days later. The play-off is played in a knock-out manner, always only for one match, without retaliation.

In addition to the national team, two Czech club representatives will compete in the Conference League in the spring. Slavia encounters Fenerbahce, Sparta on Partizan Belgrade. The opening matches are played on February 17, revenge a week later.

In the Athlete of the Year 2021 poll, Czech basketball players were the highest in the team category. The great generation around Tomáš Satoranský is waiting for the third big peak after successful performances at the World Championships in China and the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Namely, the Eurobasket tournament, ie the continental championship, which will also be co-organized by the Czech Republic.

Individual basic groups will welcome Prague, Tbilisi, Cologne, Berlin and Milan. The elimination part of the championship is made in Berlin.

“The state helped us pay for the license, which we had to pay to the European association in order for the tournament to take place in Prague. We will then be able to finance the organization of the tournament on our own, and the pre-sale of tickets has started very well for us, ”says Miroslav Jansta, Chairman of the Czech Basketball Federation.

“That’s right, basketball players received a license of 77 million crowns from state funds. The next big events of 2022 will be the Czech World Rowing Championships. The National Sports Agency will contribute 47 million crowns to it, “says Filip Neusser, chairman of the NSA.

At the turn of June and July, the European Under-19 Football Championship should also take place in the Czech Republic in 2022. It will be hosted by the Moravian-Silesian Region.