By Trevor Stynes MILAN, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Sweden edged the Czech Republic 2-0 to reach the semi-finals of the women's Olympic ice hockey tournament at Milano Rho arena on Friday, with Hanna Olsson and Hilda Svensson scoring to send their side into the last four for the first time since 2014.

After Czechia scored the first two goals of the game, France, one of the worst teams in the Olympic men’s ice hockey field scored the next three. A loss to the French combined with their previous loss to Canada would have put Czechia’s seeding in the medal round in a precarious spot.

Tens of thousands of Czechs rallied in Prague on Sunday to support the country's pro-Ukrainian president, who is locked in a dispute with the government's nationalist billionaire leader Andrej Babis.

The Czech Republic were punished by a clinical Swedish team in the quarter-finals of the women's Olympic ice hockey tournament on Friday, and were left to regret not making the most of their power play chances as they exit the Games.

Estonia's mixed curling duo of Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill lost their final Milan Cortina Winter Olympics encounter 8:4 against the Czech Republic.

Seventeen years after Czechoslovakia separated into two countries, Czechs and Slovaks are reuniting again — on television. As one of the few positive outcomes of the global financial crisis, TV stations in the two countries have been joining forces to ...

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Canada put on another ice hockey highlight reel on Friday, beating Switzerland 5-1, and Finland bested Nordic rivals Sweden 4-1 to get their Olympic title defence back on track, while Slovakia held off hosts Italy and Czech Republic beat France.