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Hi Tony, Sure, I can put you in touch with the person(s) who took pictures at the unveiling ceremony. Just drop me a line at chrom@btinternet.com regards RomanC Ps. For anyone interested in more pictures from the ceremony go to: http://www.stalgorzow.pl/galeria/albumy/2o...carza/index.php

Wimbledon's fans of the 70's will no doubt remember Eddie Jancarz, one of the best ever speedway riders from Poland gracing British tracks. 'Steady Eddie" , at the club level, apart from Wimbledon, rode only for one club in his home country, Gorzow. The town he was born in and where he learned to ride speedway. In those days when one spoke about Gorzow it meant speedway, and if it was speedway then it meant Jancarz and his Stal Gorzow Club. Last Sunday the people of Gorzow, headed by Zenon Plech, the other half of the Gorzow speedway pair that made the name of their town famous worldwide, unveiled Jancarz's monument This unique tribute ( is there anywhere in the world another monument devoted to a speedway rider) was conceived by his former friends and colleagues and the funding came from the public collection . pictures at: http://www.sportowefakty.pl/index.phpdysc_...1&news_id=93210

In my understanding , once Poland joined the EU, the opening of the Polish clubs to the foreign 'invasion' was bound to happened. Polish speedway may come to regret it, but the decision had been taken elsewhere. And not today, but sometime in the past.

the new date for Polish Golden Helmet is Friday, October 14th

Well, nobody told me as such. I just two (Pecyna) and two (Wolf Cry) together :-)

Well, I don't know who TNT133 is, but little bird tells me he got his information from Pecyna himself :-)

... is that all ? :-)

Yes, he did...and the appeal body could not establish beyond any doubt that he did kick Holta, so they let him off. What a farce it turned out to be. To be honest I have had just enough ! One farce chasing another. How anyone can take speedway seriously. I can't anymore.

Polish Tv can be had (free of charge) through digital (FTA free to air) satellite receiver costing around 50.00 GBP. You will also need a bigger dish than SKY, abouth 85cm, and an attachment to that dish, called LNB. Direct your dish on 13.0 degree East where you'll find Hiot Bird satellite, through which you will have literally hundreds free channels. Among them there will be Polsat TV channel which since beginning of this season has been covering Polish EkstraLiga speedway matches. Admittely the matches Polsat TV is showing are the re-runs at about 11.30 pm on Sundays. The original, live coverage is done through Polsat Sport, and for that you have to pay (in Poland) an annual fee. If you don't mind watching Polish speedway few hours later than the live show then Hotbird FTA satellite receiver is for you. Pitty that the season is coming to the end though.

...and, what i failed to add, Torun will be witout Crump and Smith who will ride for Belle Vue in the Elite League play-offs.

Yes it is !

I agree ! BTW, why is it called 'Conference League' ?What 'Conference" has to do with it ?

(...) Andy Smith (Torun) and Rune Holta (Czestochowa) who ride on Polish licences. I am afraid you're wrong. They are both Polish citizens, i.e., hold Polish passports. So acording to the Law they are both Polish and have the same rights, and duties, as other Poles.

Results: 1. Jason Crump 3-2-0-3-3 = 11 2. Robert Miskowiak 0-1-3-2-1 = 7 3. Maciei Kuciapa 1-2-1-1-3 = 8 4. Wieslaw Jagus 2-0-0-3-EF = 5 5. Piotr Paluch 1-1-0-2-1 = 5 6. Tomasz Chrzanowski 2-2-2-1-EF = 7 7. Kamil Brzozowski 0-0-2-0-0 = 2 8. David Ruud 3-1-2-0-2 = 8 9. Hans Andersen 1-3-0-2-2 = 8 10. Michal Rajkowski 0-0-1-0-1 = 2 11. Leigh Adams 2-3-1-3-3 = 12 12. Damian Balinski 3-2-1-2-2 = 10 13. Mark Loram F-0-3-1-1 = 5 14. Tony Rickardsson 2-3-3-1-2 = 11 15. Pawel Hlib 1-1-2-F-EF = 4 16. Rune Holta 3-3-3-3-3 = 15 Final Crump, Holta, Adams, Rickardsson

I am affraid you're wrong. Live speedway from Poland this year will be shown only on pre-paid (subscription) satellite channel Polsat SPORT. But not everything is lost though. If you can wait till later the same day (around midnight, I think), then the main Polsat channel will be showing re-run of a match that finished some hours earlier.

Hyde Park in Polish speedway ? There is no such a thing, but if you mean in the Polish speedway discussion board, then that is something something different. Being the British (English?) you should know what Hyde Park means (apart from being a park in London). It is a place where anone can say anything :-)

Just to let you know that the tickets for the Wroclaw GP 2005 (30 April) are available online on :[COLOR=blue] www.e-ticket.pl/bilet_zamow0.php[/color] Just click on the centre of opening page where you see in a frame :Speedway - Grand Prix of Europe Wroclaw - 30.04.2005 (Poland) , and you will be taken further to chose a ticket.

There is is a goods news for those travelling to The Wroclaw's Grand Prix on Saturday April, 30. Ryanair have recently announced that from March 24th they are opening cheap flights between London Stanstead and the GP venue. So anyone planning to go there should visit www.ryanair.com and book their tickets. Apparently there is flight on Saturday 30th April, leaving Stanstead at 12:05 and arriving at Wroclaw at 15:10 (just in time for the tapes up). If in a hurry, you can be back at Stanstead by next day at 16:50. The return trip should not cost you more that 75.00 British Pounds.

How the time flies. It is already 13 years since the tragic death of Poland's and Wimbledon's Eddie Jancarz. The anniversary of the exact date, 11th January 1992, passed just few days ago, but the memory of his life and achievement is being kept alive in Poland and especially his home town, Gorzow, where one of its streets and a stadium with its speedway track bears the name of Edward Jancarz. Recently a proposal for a stone monument honouring Jancarz has been put forward, and no doubt will be constructed in due time. Thirteen years ago, much missed London's "Speedway Mail International" published his obituary. Without much bragging about it :-), I am reproducing it here in full. I hope younger members of this list will benefit from it. SPEEDWAY MAIL INTERNATIONAL week ending January 18, 1992 By ROMAN CHYLA and TONY McDONALD EDWARD JANCARZ, the most successful rider in Polish speedway history, was tragically killed on Saturday evening. The 45 year-old former Wimbledon number one died following a stabbing incident at his Gorzow flat. His wife of two years, Katarzyna, 30, has been charged with the killing and is likely to appear in court. It was reported in the daily Bydgoszcz newspaper, 'Gazeta Pomorska' earlier this week, that Jancarz and his second wife were involved in a furious row that turned into tragedy. Jancarz, who was reported under the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident, suffered three knife wounds to his upper body. It was the third which severed a main artery in his shoulder, causing extensive bleeding and his death at around 8 pm. News of Jancarz's death shook Poland, where he is a speedway legend, and will also stun Britain ', He was always one of the most popular imports and fans at Wimbledon, his only British League club from 1977 until 1983, will be deeply saddened by what has happened. Polish superstar Edward Roman Jancarz, began his illustrious speedway career in 1965, when he signed for his local Gorzow club. Just seven days after receiving his racing licence, Jancarz made his debut for Stal Gorzow in a Polish League match at Gdansk. He scored just one point but it was the start of a brilliant career that would blossom on the national and international stage. In 1967 Jancarz won the Polish Under-23 Championship but the highlight of his career came the following season. Jancarz scored eight points in the European Final at Wroclaw to quality for his first World Final. Just less than two weeks past his 22nd birthday, he took on the world's finest at the Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg. The meeting was dominated by the two Kiwi greats, Ivan Mauger and Barry Briggs, but the stylish Pole grabbed third place with 11 points. He clinched the bronze medal by defeating Russian Kurilenko In a run-off. In 1969 Jancarz made history by reaching the World Final again. As In Sweden, Mauger and Briggs ruled supreme. But Jancarz won his last two races to scramble into sixth place with nine points. There was more glory for the young man they called 'Steady Eddie' before the end of the 1969 season. A few days after Wembley, Jancarz romped to 11 out of 12 points - making him joint top scorer - as Poland won the World Team Cup at Rybnik. A magnificent 1969 season was capped by his victory in the prestige Golden Helmet and Stal Gorzow's Polish League championship success. Those achievements earned Eddie Poland's Sports Personality of the Year award - a great honour for a speedway rider. Britain saw the impressive Jancarz for the first time in 1970, when he came with the touring Stal Gorzow team, but serious shoulder and collar bone injuries ruled him out of his country's first-ever World Final staging, at Wroclaw, later that year, when Mauger completed his hat-trick. Jancarz added a new dimension to his career in 1973 when, at the age of only 27, he became Stal Gorzow's new rider/coach ... and celebrated with another league title that same season. A year later Jancarz and Zenon Plech broke new ground by touring Australia, New Zealand and USA with the Mauger/Briggs World Champions' Troupe. They pulled in massive crowds and the fans went wild at the sight of these East Europeans racing flat out. In 1974 Jancerz was the senior member of the Polish Test team that toured England (he holds the record number of international caps for Poland). The following summer Jancarz scored 15 points in the World Pairs Final at Wroclaw, but he and Piotr Bruzda were pipped by a point by Sweden. In his homeland, Jancarz remained a powerful force. The1975 season saw the first of his two individual Polish Championship victories, although he had to wait until 1983 for his second, and only other, success in his country's premier event of the year. By then Jancarz had finished a British League career with Wimbledon that began in 1977. He made his debut for the Dons against Sheffield at Plough Lane on March 17,1977 and went on to enjoy a highly successful debut season, averaging (cma) 10.44 in home matches and winning the prestige Embassy Internationale - the only East European ever to achieve the feat. Although Eddie's BL commitments were occasionally interrupted by Continental recalls, he remained a very popular and - as his nickname indicates - steady performer for Wimbledon, right up until 1982, when he also made his last World Final appearance, in Los Angeles. In all, Edward Jancarz qualified for 11 individual World Finals, although injury prevented him from competing in one. He has 11 World Championship medals. Since his retirement from racing five years ago, Jancarz has been coaching young Polish riders at Gorzow - where his life began and, tragically, where it came to such an awful end. ...

Are you sure he has a contract with Zielona Gora ? If so, when was it signed ?