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Sailing Olympic champion Lara Vadlau is back on the water after a serious knee injury and is planning to participate in the 2028 Olympic Games with her new crew member Niklas Haberl, while also demanding a different societal approach to sports and the female body. #LaraVadlau #Segeln #Olympia2028 (translated)

Zdeněk Šarapatka thanked his supporters and stated that their support helped him get back on his feet after the results of the Senate elections. According to him, the campaign in Prague 5 and 13 was not a fair competition about topics, but a contest over billboards. He claimed that one of the candidates was running a concurrent campaign for the Senate and the Prague City Hall, transferring funds between them, including money from a company building houses. According to Šarapatka, the state supervision office did not respond to the violations of the rules. The candidate, he claimed, received 14,606 votes out of a total of 45,782. Šarapatka also criticized the ODS, which, according to him, despite an agreement with his TOP 09, fielded its own candidate, thereby reducing the chances of defeating Václav Láska. He stated that their candidate hardly presented political positions during public appearances and instead relied on a romanticized story about the students' relationship with the school principal. He added that the students of the candidate's school, according to Šarapatka, got involved in the campaign, even though the principal was balancing on the edge of the education law. The candidate received 12,162 votes out of 45,782. As an earlier example of the split with ODS, Šarapatka mentioned its member Benda, who, according to him, appointed Matocha and Xaver Veselý to the Czech Television Council. He claimed that part of ODS contributed to his failure in the election despite the party agreements at that time. He also recalled that six years ago, at ODS's request, he supported its candidate in the second round of the Senate elections in Mělník, whom he claimed he had not seen publicly appear in the Senate since then. Šarapatka stated that he would not make the same mistake again. According to him, the result meant that there would be no amendment to the lustration law nor security clearances for government members and their deputies, and that there would be no qualified fight for a free Czech Radio and Czech Television. At the same time, he urged his supporters to keep going. #politika #volby #Senát (translated)

Czech literature was presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair from October 7 to 11, 2023, where 75 authors participated, among whom Radka Denemarková stood out, and the Czech market will offer almost 200 new books translated into German. #FrankfurtskýKnižníVeletrh #ČeskáLiteratura #RadkaDenemarková (translated)

Jože Možina wrote that RTV somewhat covered up the interview with historian Dr. Željko Oset that evening, in his opinion. He labeled Oset as an excellent historian who, in his words, placed Asta Vrečko and the political police in the right context. He also referenced Oset's books *The Academic World Under Surveillance* and *The Udbas Handbook* and invited readers to watch the interview. #intervju #zgodovina #politika (translated)

Julian Adrat criticized that Markus Söder had claimed in the program "Miosga" without contest that the AfD was hostile to the disabled and "brutally right" in Bavaria. Miosga referred to Adrat in a derogatory manner. Adrat countered Söder's statement with a series of his own examples, which he labeled as "not normal." These included the blowing up of nuclear power plants, prison sentences for internet memes, and centuries of debt approved by a dismissed parliament. He also mentioned transforming Christmas markets into fortresses, citizen income payments to foreigners, the handling of billions for masks, the purchase of babies, and calls for rocket attacks on Moscow. As further examples, Adrat cited the expansion of wind and solar plants, bike paths in Peru, the training of trans-rickshaw drivers in India, and 130,000 foreigners who roamed freely despite arrest warrants. In conclusion, he criticized that citizens had to finance the programs under threat of imprisonment. #Politik #AfD #Gesellschaft (translated)

Nachez stated that the airport in Riyadh had been attacked again and questioned why Formula 1 was traveling to Qatar and Abu Dhabi. He also noted that alerts about air security in the region had increased and that a tanker had been hit north of Qatar that week. https://t.co/knkEZNlqJ9 #SeguridadAérea #F1 #OrienteMedio (translated)

Paula published a short video that she claimed suggested how the government MPs Denis Doksanský and Petr Sadovský performed in the elections. She stated that both were from the ANO movement and from the Hradec Králové Region: Doksanský was running for the city council of Hradec Králové and Sadovský for the Senate in Rychnov nad Kněžnou. She labeled the ANO movement with a derogatory pun and added mocking hashtags to her post. #fuckano #muhehe https://t.co/OAUia6czU4 #volby #politika #Česko (translated)

Emma Reilly stated that Navi Pillay handed the name Che Cheng, the wife of Kao Zhiyu, to China. She wrote that Kao smuggled a book about torture out of a Chinese prison, which he claimed authorities subjected him to because of his activism. She added that Kao is missing and that Pillay received the Nobel Peace Prize. #NobelovaCenaMíru #LidskáPráva #Aktivismus #CN (translated)

The Ironman 2026 in Hawaii showed dramatic turns and intense physical struggles of the athletes, with Taylor Knibb reaching the finish line as the winner despite a collapse, while Patrick Lange had to prematurely end his last appearance on the island. #IronmanHawaii #Triathlon #SportDrama (translated)

The writer argued that any European peace plan without a credible war plan to support it would amount to capitulation, and said Ukraine understood this. They added that peace could not be achieved through conciliatory words without first preparing substantial force. #UkrainianCrisis #Peace #WarPlan #EU #UA

Kolja Barghoorn ironically referred to the energy transition as a "masterpiece" and stated that instead of the promised cheap electricity, electricity prices are 16.4 percent higher than in 2021. He also pointed to billions in costs for grid bottlenecks and reserve power plants, battery storage that only lasts two hours at full capacity, and hydrogen, which has been considered a future technology for years. Barghoorn also criticized a new market created by the state, in which power plant operators would be paid for 15 years to provide electricity in case of outages from wind and solar power. He cited Blackout News as the source for the mentioned data. #Energiewende #Strompreise #Energiepolitik (translated)

Montenegrin services prevented a major hybrid attack on Montenegro by the Russians, as they are all colonels of the GRU (Russian military intelligence service, ed. note), so it seems that all the colonels are there. Pro-Russian politician from Montenegro, leader and representative of the Democratic People's Party (DNP) Milan Knežević, who congratulated Putin on his 74th birthday a few days ago and wished him to live for a hundred years, said he would welcome any action against hybrid activities, if proven. #CrnaGora #Putin #dezinformacije (translated)