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Pole wins world hammer throw title

Fajdek's winning throw checked in at 81.98 metres. Robert Ghement/PAP/EPA

Poland's Paweł Fajdek is the new hammer throw world champion after winning gold at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, while another Pole, Wojciech Nowicki, came away with a silver medal.

Tokyo 2020: is Team PL on track for glory?

As the Olympics enters its final few days, we bring you the highs and lows of Poland’s week.

Poles take gold, two bronzes at Tokyo Olympics

Poland's Wojciech Nowicki won gold for the hammer throw at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo on Wednesday with a throw of 82.52m while teammate Pawel Fajdek threw the hammer 81.53m to take bronze, and a second bronze was won by Patryk Dobek in the 800m.

We are the champions! Poland sweeps to glory in European Athletics Championships

With two sets of gold and silver, Poles began the tournament in Berlin on a high.

Top 5 articles:

  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
  • Over 100,000 slaughtered with axes, pitchforks, scythes and knives: The Wołyń massacre started 76 years ago today and lasted for two years
  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
Life

Eco triumph as Krakow’s ‘best kept secret’ to become nature reserve after being saved from developers

Home to 286 different forms of flora, and nearly 40 species of fauna, the Liban Quarry, which is best-known for serving as the set for Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust epic Schindler’s List, also contains rock formations, and soil and underground water systems of particularly high natural value.

The first report:

  • Most Poles favour acceleration of nuclear power development
  • Kaczynski wants to take Poland out of EU, opposition leader warns
  • Thousands of tonnes of WWII munitions corroding in the Baltic
  • Polish schools can take in more Ukrainian children, minister says
  • Poland accepts 5.37 mln refugees since war in Ukraine started

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Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters

Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in depth, the cylindrical metal canister was found in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS as a brothel.

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