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Basketball
The Prokom Trefl Sopot is the
only basketball team which plays
in the FIBA Champions Cup Final
Four.
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history began in 1995 when Trefl
Basketball Association set up.
After just a year, the team named
Trefl Sopot joined the Polish
second division. At the end of the
1996-97 campaign, they reached
the first big achievement of their
history, advancement to the first
league. In six seasons after that,
the team twice won the Polish
Cup, in 2000 and 2001, and
reached the PLK finals two times.
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Basketball
The team represents a small
town(Sopot) with 20,500
inhabitants. Prokom has a lot of
loyal fans not only in Sopot, but
in all 3miasto (Tri City - Gdansk,
Sopot and Gdynia) .
The team also reached the FIBA
Champions Cup Final Four and
lost just the final game against
Aris Thessaloniki.
The superstar of the team
coached by Eugenijus Kijewski
was the Slovenian forward Goran
Jagodnik, who was the best
scorer of the Polish League
playoffs averaging 17.4 points for
games, but the team was full of
players well-known all over
Europe.
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Football
Our city(Gdańsk) has great
traditions. One of those is
great passion for sports. We
are quite big city so the
interest is also big.
On the first place is without
doubts football. Almost
every man is into football.
Our city has one 60-years
old team called Lechia
Gdansk. It was established
in 1945 after the Second
World War, free of the
influence from communism.
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Football
It is in the second Polish
league but everyone that
was interested in Polish
football longer than since
yesterday, knowS that club
that was the Polish Cup
winners in 1983 and played
with Juventus Turyn in UEFA
Cup. Those are old times.
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Football
Now the case is a bit
different. About six years
ago due the frauds in
administration ,Lechia was
forced to start the new
beginning.”What’s so great
about our team ?” you can
ask."Fans!" I say.
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Football
Even in the lowest stage of
leagues performence there
were about one thousand
loyal supporters that were
on each game.The
atomsphere on the stadium
is like on English games
when thousands of football
fans(supporters) are singing
to hail their club.We can be
proud of our supporters
legacy.
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Yachting
Gdansk is an old city
situated on the Baltic Sea.
Sailing has been popular in
Gdansk for a long time. This
is because of wonderful
windy weather and proper
location near the coast line.
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Yachting
More and more young people
are interested in that sport
because it gives a lot of fun
and developes such abilities
like cooporation and working
in group.This skill is very
usefull in each part of our
lives.
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Yachting
The most popular boat-race
classes are: Laser radial,
Laser, 470, 420, 49er, Finn,
Europe, L`equipe and
Optymist.
The leading clubsin in 3city
are: Hestia Sopot, YKP
Gdynia, AZS AWFiS Gdańsk
and Arka Gdynia.
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