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  • The Sports Year 2024

    The Sports Year 2024

    Romania made it back to the world’s top rankings in 2024. At the Olympics in Paris, the Romanian delegation came 23rd in the world’s medal ranking, a headway since the previous edition in Tokyo, where they ranked only 46th.

    The Olympic Games kicked off in Paris in late July with a grandiose but controversial ceremony of issues less related to sports though…The first medals for Romania were brought by swimmer David Popovici: gold in the 200 meters free-style race and bronze in the 100-meter event.

    Then Andrei Cornea and Marian Enache stepped onto the podium’s highest step in the double scull race and so did Simona Radiş and Ancuţa Bodnar in the similar women’s event. Ioana Vrînceanu and Roxana Anghel became silver medalists in the women’s pair event and so did Gianina van Groningen and Ionela Cozmiuc in the women’s lightweight double scull. The third Olympic title was obtained by the Romanian eight in the last day of the rowing competitions.

    Weightlifter Mihaela Cambei reaped silver in the 49 kilogram category, while gymnast Ana Maria Barbosu obtained bronze in the floor event, upon a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport based in Lausanne.

    Football again grabbed the limelight after the end of the Olympics, and Romania boasted a representative in the Champions League’s qualifiers, FCSB, one in the Europa League’s qualifiers, Corvinul Hunedoara, and another two in the Conference League: CFR Cluj and Universitatea Craiova. FCSB made it to the third round of the Champions league, where they were stopped in their tracks by the Czech side Sparta Prague. The Romanian champions later played in the playoffs for Europa League, where they outperformed LASK Linz of Austria. After six matches, FCSB ranked 10th in Europa League with three wins, two draws and a defeat.

    In January they will be playing Qarabag of Azerbaijan, and Manchester United in a home match. Corvinul Hunedoara were knocked out in the second preliminary round by Rijeka of Croatia. They next joined the Conference League’s third round where they got outperformed by Astana of Kazakhstan. In the same competition Universitatea Craiova were knocked out of the qualifiers by the Slovenian side Maribor. CFR Cluj managed to obtain the best performance and made it to the play-offs, where they lost to Cypriote side Pafos.

    In the second half of the year, Romania’s national football side played in the Nations League under the guidance of the famous Romanian headcoach and football legend, Mircea Lucescu, who had come back to the Romanian national side after almost 40 years. Romania won all the six matches in the second group of League C, which also included Cyprus, Lithuania and Kosovo. Our footballers won five matches and the match in Bucharest against Kosovo was decided by the UEFA after the visitors had left the pitch before the final whistle and the result was three-nil to Romania. So Romania ended up among the best four winners in the Nations League groups and secured their place in the World Cup playoffs. Lots drawn in December have placed Romania in Group H together with Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and San Marino. Our footballers will be playing Bosnia and Herzegovina in March. The group’s winners are directly qualified whereas the 12 sides in the second positions in the groups plus the best sides in the 2024-2025 edition of the Nations League, which didn’t qualify in the preliminaries, will be vying for the four places available in the European zone.

    We cannot end without mentioning the best Romanian athletes who left us in 2024. Canoe sprinter Vasile Dîba left us in February. Dîba stepped on the highest step of the podium at the Montreal Olympics in 1976. The former great handballer Stefan Birtalan, double world champion and Olympic medalist, left us in May.

    Javelin thrower, Mihaela Peneş, gold medalist at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and silver medalist in Mexico City in 1968, left us in August. On December 2 we lost one of Romania’s greatest goalkeepers, Helmut Duckadam. He was dubbed the Hero in Seville, after he had saved four penalty shots in the 1986 finals of the European Champions Cup Steaua Bucharest won against Barcelona.

    Dan Grecu, the first world champion in Romania’s men gymnastics, bronze medalist at the Montreal Olympics in 1976 also left us in December.

    (bill)

  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

     

    The 2024 World Rowing Championships came to an end in St. Catherines, Canada. In the senior competition, where only non-Olympic events were held, Romania won a gold medal thanks to Ionela Cozmiuc, in the lightweight single sculls category. After the competition, the athlete announced her withdrawal from competitions. In the under-23 events, Romanian rowers won gold medals in the quadruple sculls and coxless pair competitions. The Romanian athletes had the best results in the under-19 category, with 4 gold medals, in the women’s single sculls, men’s and women’s coxless pair and quadruple sculls.

     

    Cătălin Chirilă won the bronze medal in the 500-m canoe event this Sunday, at the 2024 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The winner was Serghey Tarnovschi, of the Republic of Moldova, followed by Martin Fuksa of the Czech Republic. In the 200-m single canoe event, Chirilă came out 8th. Previously, on Saturday, Ilie Sprîncean and Oleg Nuţă finished 5th in the 1,000-m men’s canoe pair competition.

     

    The Romanian footballer Dennis Man played in the 2nd round of the Italian top football league. He scored the first goal of his team, Parma, in the second minute of their match against AC Milan, which they won 2-1.

     

    We end with news from domestic football. This weekend saw matches counting towards the 7th round of the Romanian SuperLeague. On Friday, in Ploieşti, Petrolul drew 0-0 against Otelul Galaţi, and Rapid Bucharest won away from home against Poli Iaşi, 2-1. On Saturday, Unirea Slobozia won 1-0, in Sfântu Gheorghe, against Sepsi OSK, while Dinamo defeated Universitatea Craiova, in Bucharest, 2-1. On Sunday, CFR Cluj beat FC Botoşani 3-0, on home turf, and Hermannstadt defeated FCSB 2-0 in Sibiu. Top ranking are Craiova, with 14 points. (AMP)

  • Sports Update

    Sports Update

    In the US Open qualifiers, Elena Gabriela Ruse has entered the third round. In the second round, on Wednesday, she defeated the Chinese Ye-Xin Ma 6-3, 6-3, after an hour and ten minutes of play. The other Romanian player who reached the second round of the qualifications, Irina Bara, was defeated by the Australian Arina Rodionova 6-4, 6-4. The game was balanced and lasted one hour and 27 minutes. At the US Open, Jaqueline Cristian and Ana Bogdan go directly to the main draw. The latter is still in Cleveland, in the state of Ohio, where a WTA 250 tournament with prizes worth 267 thousand dollars is under way, and where the Romanian qualified for the quarterfinals. On Wednesday, in the round of 16, Ana defeated Greet Minnen, from Belgium, 7-6, 6-3.

     

    Now news from rowing. At the end of this week, the Romanian canoeists Cătălin Chirilă, Ilie Sprîncean and Oleg Nuţă will perform in the 2024 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships for non-olympic events, hosted by Uzbekistan, in Samarkand. Chirilă will participate in the 200 and 500 meters singles, whose finals will take place on Friday and Sunday, respectively. Sprîncean and Nuță will compete in the 1000-meter doubles event, with the final taking place on Saturday. The three also represented Romania at the Olympic Games in Paris. Cătălin Chirilă ranked 9th in the men’s canoe single on the distance of 1000 meters, and the Sprîncean / Nuţă pair also ranked 9th in the canoe double on the distance of 500 meters.

     

    Marius Şumudică is the new coach of the Rapid Bucharest football team. The team terminated the contract of Neil Lennon of Northern Ireland, after six stages of the new season, in which the Giulești-based team did not obtain a single victory. Şumudica, a 53-year-old technician, played for Rapid between 1997 and 1999, then in the 2001-2002 season. He won, in the cherry-red and white shirt of Rapid club, the championship of the first Romanian league in 1999 and the Romanian Cup in 1998 and 2002. As a coach, in the 2010-2011 season, he led the Giulești team for 29 stages. He also coached Astra Giurgiu, with whom he won the champion trophy, as well as Farul Constanţa, FC Braşov, FC Vaslui, Universitatea Cluj and CFR Cluj. Among the foreign teams he coached are the Saudi groups Al Shabab and Al Raed, as well as the Turkish teams Kayserispor, Rizespor, Malatyaspor and Gaziantep. (LS)

  • August 10, 2024

    August 10, 2024

    Fugitives – The Romanian Justice Ministry announces that it has brought back to the country other Romanian citizens who had fled abroad to avoid serving prison sentences, namely human traffickers and pimps. Among them there is a woman convicted of pimping at 6 years and 9 months, brought from the Netherlands. Another fugitive, brought from Italy, has to serve a sentence of 6 years and 1 month for human trafficking. We remind you that, this year, the so-called Fugitives Law entered into force, by which persons convicted and repatriated to serve their criminal sentence are obliged to pay the costs of being brought back to Romania. Only in 2023, the costs for bringing back to Romania over 800 Romanian citizens in this situation exceeded 10 million lei (around 2 million Euros).

     

    Untold – The biggest music festival in Romania, Untold, continues in Cluj-Napoca (north-west). Until Sunday, more than 250 top national and international artists perform for tens of thousands of fans from all over the world. Besides the concerts, the organizers have also prepared numerous thematic parties, and as a novelty, on the main stage, the performance of musical pieces is also done in sign language for people with hearing impairments. The authorities pay special attention to preventing the sale and consumption of drugs during the festival.

     

    Olympics – Today, Romanian athletes are competing at the Olympic Games in Paris, in one sport – wrestling. Romania has so far won eight medals at the Olympic Games – three gold, four silver and one bronze. After the races on the 14th official day of competitions, Romania dropped to 20th place in the nations’ ranking. On Friday, to the astonishment of many Romanians, Cătălin Chirilă failed qualification in the final of the 1,000 m canoe singles event, although in the heats he had broken the 20-year-old record of the event. The athlete, a world champion in 2022 and world vice champion in 2023, declared that he was confused by the weather, the wind being quite strong and the waves big.

     

    Inflation – The National Bank of Romania significantly improved, on Friday, the estimates regarding the evolution of inflation, from 4.9% to 4% per year for the end of 2024. The downward trend should be maintained at the beginning of next year, followed by a temporary increase in the spring of 2025, then a return to the downward trend. The national bank calculates an annual inflation rate of 3.4% for the end of next year, slightly below the previously estimated level. The central bank governor, Mugur Isărescu, stated that the inflation forecast also took into account possible risks or uncertainties, including the conduct of fiscal and revenue policies, as well as the evolution of energy and food prices.

     

    Moscow – The Russian aviation authority has banned Russian airlines from flying into Israel’s airspace in the following nights, the dpa news agency reports. The ban entered into force today and is valid until August 16. Moscow did not provide a reason for the decision, but dpa believes it could be linked to a feared Iranian airstrike on Israel. Russia is a close ally of Tehran and has recently stepped up its deliveries of air defense weapons to the Iranians. Many international airlines have canceled their flights to Israel due to the threat of war in the region. Meanwhile, Israel has agreed to sending negotiators to the new talks on a cease-fire agreement and the release of hostages in Gaza, following an urgent appeal by the mediator countries – the United States, Egypt and Qatar. Hamas has not yet responded to the call, seen as an attempt to stop the escalation of the conflict, after the assassination of the political leader of the Palestinian group, Ismail Haniyeh. (LS)

     

  • Cătălin Chirilă, medalie de aur la canoe simplu 500 m la Mondiale

    Cătălin Chirilă, medalie de aur la canoe simplu 500 m la Mondiale

    Sportivul român Cătălin Chirilă a cucerit medalia de aur în proba de canoe simplu pe 500 metri, la Campionatele Mondiale de kaiac-canoe de la Duisburg (Germania).



    Chirilă a fost urmat de germanul Conrad Scheibner şi de moldoveanul Serghei Tarnovschi.



    Cătălin Chirilă şi-a îmbunătăţit performanţa la 500 metri (probă neolimpică), după ce anul trecut obţinuse argintul la Mondialele de la Dartmouth (Canada).



    Canoistul va evolua sâmbătă în finala de la 1.000 metri (olimpică), în care s-a calificat cu al doilea timp. Competiţia contează pentru calificarea la JO 2024, primii 6 din finală urmând să obţină biletele pentru Paris. Chirilă este campionul mondial en titre în această probă.


  • Radio Romania International Sports club

    Radio Romania International Sports club

    One of Romania’s greatest athletes has recently celebrated his 89th birthday anniversary. A time-honored veteran of our Olympic champions, born on July 22nd, 1934, Leon Rotman was the first Romanian to have won two gold medals at the same edition of the Olympic Games, in Melbourne, in 1956.



    Leon Rotman was born in the old Bucharest neighborhood of Dudesti, into the family of a Jewish store-keeper. When he was 15 and still an apprentice with the Timpuri Noi plants, Leon Rotman took up training on the premises of Flacara club’s wrestling hall, being one of the 67-kilgram hopefuls. In 1952, when on the shores of the Floreasca lake, he discovered the nautical sports. Soon afterwards he was granted membership of Dinamo Bucharest Sports club’s kayak-canoe section. Rotman was quick to persuade his coaches that his place was definitely in the men’s canoe single boat. It didn’t take Rotman too long to succeed a string of wins at national level, so much so that he gained membership of the delegation representing Romania at the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956. Back then, three of the four gold medals won in the men’s canoe events went to the Romanian rowers, who had no problem outclassing their challengers from Russia and Hungary, then the dominating powers in the nautical sports.



    Rotman’s s first noteworthy victory occurred in the 10,000m race. The Romanian had problems registering for the event since his boat was slightly bent, an official irregularity according to the competition’s organizers. Rotman was given another boat, but that also had a problem: it was longer than officially stipulated. The canoe was shortened with a saw, then during the race Rotman displayed his force and talent, defeating the favorites of the 10,000m race, the Hungarians János Parti and István Hernek as well as the then Soviet Genady Bukharin. Rotman won the race being 80 meters ahead of the runner-up rower, Janos Parti.



    The 1,000m race followed. This time around as well, Rotman was the favorite. He confirmed, and yet again won the race; with Hungary’s Hernek being Rotman’s runner-up rower. Just like in the 10,000m race, the bronze medal went to Bukharin. The third gold medal won by the Romanian rowers in Melbourne went to Alexe Dumitru and Simion Ismailciuc, in the 1,000m men’s canoe double race.



    In 1960 at the Olympics Games in Rome, the Romanian rowers won only one medal, again through Leon Rotman, who walked home with bronze in the 1, 000m men’s canoe single race.


  • Sports roundup

    Sports roundup




    At the 2023
    ICF Canoe Spring World Cup held in Szeged, Hungary, Romania won 3 medals.
    Cătălin Chirilă won the canoe single 500m and 1,000m races, and Ilie Sprincean and
    Oleg Nuţă won the canoe double 1,000m race. In the competition in Szeged, Romania
    was represented by 9 athletes, 2 women and 7 men, and came out 3rd
    in the medal table.




    Romania has
    left empty-handed from the World Judo Championships in Doha, Qatar. The
    Romanian participants performed modestly, with the best result reported for Lucian
    Borş – Dumitrescu, who reached the eighth-finals of the 66 kg category. The
    last medals for Romania in a world judo championship were won in 2015, in
    Astana, Kazakhstan, by Andreea Chiţu, in the 52 kg category, and by Corina
    Căprioriu, in the 57 kg.




    CSM Lugoj won
    their first Romanian cup in women’s volleyball. The team from Lugoj Sunday won
    the final against CSM Târgovişte, 3-1, in Piteşti. In Saturday’s semis, CSM
    Lugoj beat Volei Alba Blaj, the defending champions and trophy holders, 3-2. The
    athletes from Lugoj thus conclude a very good season, in which they won the Cup
    Winners Cup, the Romanian Cup and played the Challenge Cup final.




    This
    weekend saw matches counting towards the play-off / play-out stage of Romania’s
    football SuperLeague, round 8. In the play-off, Rapid Bucharest drew at home against
    Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe, 0-all. Another tie, 1-all, came on Saturday in the match
    pitting Universitatea Craiova against Farul Constanţa. On Sunday, in the derby
    of this round, played on the National Arena in Bucharest in front of a crowd of
    over 40,000, FCSB beat CFR Cluj 1-0. Top of the standings at present are Farul,
    with 47 points, followed by FCSB, one point behind.




    In the play-out
    matches, on Friday FC Botoşani defeated Voluntari on home turf, 2-0. On Saturday,
    Hermannstadt beat Petrolul Ploieşti 1-0, and Universitatea Cluj outplayed Chindia
    Târgovişte, 2-0. On Sunday, UTA Arad won 2-0 against Mioveni, and FC U Craiova defeated
    FC Argeş, 2-1. CS Mioveni is certain to be relegated to a lower league, one
    round before the end of the play-out stage, while struggling to avoid
    relegation are also FC Argeş, with 21 points, and Chindia, with 22. In the last
    round, this coming Friday, FC Argeş take on Petrolul Ploiesti, and Chindia face
    FC Voluntari. (AMP)

  • Sports roundup

    Sports roundup




    At the 2023
    ICF Canoe Spring World Cup held in Szeged, Hungary, Romania won 3 medals.
    Cătălin Chirilă won the canoe single 500m and 1,000m races, and Ilie Sprincean and
    Oleg Nuţă won the canoe double 1,000m race. In the competition in Szeged, Romania
    was represented by 9 athletes, 2 women and 7 men, and came out 3rd
    in the medal table.




    Romania has
    left empty-handed from the World Judo Championships in Doha, Qatar. The
    Romanian participants performed modestly, with the best result reported for Lucian
    Borş – Dumitrescu, who reached the eighth-finals of the 66 kg category. The
    last medals for Romania in a world judo championship were won in 2015, in
    Astana, Kazakhstan, by Andreea Chiţu, in the 52 kg category, and by Corina
    Căprioriu, in the 57 kg.




    CSM Lugoj won
    their first Romanian cup in women’s volleyball. The team from Lugoj Sunday won
    the final against CSM Târgovişte, 3-1, in Piteşti. In Saturday’s semis, CSM
    Lugoj beat Volei Alba Blaj, the defending champions and trophy holders, 3-2. The
    athletes from Lugoj thus conclude a very good season, in which they won the Cup
    Winners Cup, the Romanian Cup and played the Challenge Cup final.




    This
    weekend saw matches counting towards the play-off / play-out stage of Romania’s
    football SuperLeague, round 8. In the play-off, Rapid Bucharest drew at home against
    Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe, 0-all. Another tie, 1-all, came on Saturday in the match
    pitting Universitatea Craiova against Farul Constanţa. On Sunday, in the derby
    of this round, played on the National Arena in Bucharest in front of a crowd of
    over 40,000, FCSB beat CFR Cluj 1-0. Top of the standings at present are Farul,
    with 47 points, followed by FCSB, one point behind.




    In the play-out
    matches, on Friday FC Botoşani defeated Voluntari on home turf, 2-0. On Saturday,
    Hermannstadt beat Petrolul Ploieşti 1-0, and Universitatea Cluj outplayed Chindia
    Târgovişte, 2-0. On Sunday, UTA Arad won 2-0 against Mioveni, and FC U Craiova defeated
    FC Argeş, 2-1. CS Mioveni is certain to be relegated to a lower league, one
    round before the end of the play-out stage, while struggling to avoid
    relegation are also FC Argeş, with 21 points, and Chindia, with 22. In the last
    round, this coming Friday, FC Argeş take on Petrolul Ploiesti, and Chindia face
    FC Voluntari. (AMP)

  • Sports flash

    Sports flash


    Romanian tennis player
    Sorana Cîrstea this past Wednesday as part of the first round of the WTA 1000 tennis
    tournament in Rome, an event with 3, 600, 000 Euros in prize money, defeated US
    opponent Katie Volynets, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Sorana had a hard time defeated Katie,
    after two hours and 25 minutes of play. In the second round, Sorana will face WTA 20th-placed tennis player,
    Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko. Another Romanian tennis player competing in the Rome
    tournament, Gabriela Ruse, had no problem defeating Czech opponent Linda
    Fruhvirtova, 6-1, 6-nil. Gabriela will next take on WTA 15th-placed tennis player, player, Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia. The third Romanian tennis player competing in the Rome tournament, Ana Bogdan, has also emerged as a first-round winner, defeating Japan’s Nao Hibino, 7-5, 6-nil. In the second round, Bogdan
    takes on WTA number 4 tennis player, the French Caroline Garcia.


    The World Judo Championship
    is underway in Qatar’s Doha. So far, the Romanian delegation has had a lackluster
    performance. On Wednesday, in the 63-kilogram category, in the first round, Florentina Ivanescu sustained
    a defeat by Korean opponent Chaewon Shin. For the sixth time around, Clarisse Agbegnenou of France won the world title in the 63-kilogram
    category. In the final, Clarisse defeated Slovenia’s Andreja Leski through
    ippon. The bronze medals went to Hungarian judoka Szofi Özbas and the Dutch Joanne
    van Lieshout.


    The ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup 2023 will be
    held in Hungary’s Szeged, from Thursday and all through to Sunday. The world
    champion in the men’s C-1 1,000m sprint canoeing event, the Romanian Catalin
    Chirila, is among the participants. Chirila
    is one the Romanian rowers standing great chances to win an Olympic medal in
    the 2024 edition of the Paris Olympics.


    In news from football, in a derby
    confrontation counting towards the Romanian Second League’s Group 1, on
    Wednesday Poli Iaşi grabbed a 5-1 home win against Steaua Bucharest. Mathematically
    speaking, Poli Iasi has already been promoted to the Superleague. Runner-up
    team Steaua is lawfully denied promotion irrespective of its position according
    to the Second league’s final rankings.

  • Sports flash

    Sports flash


    Romanian tennis player
    Sorana Cîrstea this past Wednesday as part of the first round of the WTA 1000 tennis
    tournament in Rome, an event with 3, 600, 000 Euros in prize money, defeated US
    opponent Katie Volynets, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Sorana had a hard time defeated Katie,
    after two hours and 25 minutes of play. In the second round, Sorana will face WTA 20th-placed tennis player,
    Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko. Another Romanian tennis player competing in the Rome
    tournament, Gabriela Ruse, had no problem defeating Czech opponent Linda
    Fruhvirtova, 6-1, 6-nil. Gabriela will next take on WTA 15th-placed tennis player, player, Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia. The third Romanian tennis player competing in the Rome tournament, Ana Bogdan, has also emerged as a first-round winner, defeating Japan’s Nao Hibino, 7-5, 6-nil. In the second round, Bogdan
    takes on WTA number 4 tennis player, the French Caroline Garcia.


    The World Judo Championship
    is underway in Qatar’s Doha. So far, the Romanian delegation has had a lackluster
    performance. On Wednesday, in the 63-kilogram category, in the first round, Florentina Ivanescu sustained
    a defeat by Korean opponent Chaewon Shin. For the sixth time around, Clarisse Agbegnenou of France won the world title in the 63-kilogram
    category. In the final, Clarisse defeated Slovenia’s Andreja Leski through
    ippon. The bronze medals went to Hungarian judoka Szofi Özbas and the Dutch Joanne
    van Lieshout.


    The ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup 2023 will be
    held in Hungary’s Szeged, from Thursday and all through to Sunday. The world
    champion in the men’s C-1 1,000m sprint canoeing event, the Romanian Catalin
    Chirila, is among the participants. Chirila
    is one the Romanian rowers standing great chances to win an Olympic medal in
    the 2024 edition of the Paris Olympics.


    In news from football, in a derby
    confrontation counting towards the Romanian Second League’s Group 1, on
    Wednesday Poli Iaşi grabbed a 5-1 home win against Steaua Bucharest. Mathematically
    speaking, Poli Iasi has already been promoted to the Superleague. Runner-up
    team Steaua is lawfully denied promotion irrespective of its position according
    to the Second league’s final rankings.

  • Info Sport

    Info Sport

    Jucătoarea română de tenis Sorana Cîrstea, nr. 38
    mondial și principală favorită, a fost eliminată suprinzător în primul tur al
    turneului Ţiriac Foundation Trophy de la Bucureşti. Ea a cedat în fața
    elveţiancei Simona Waltert, numărul 118 mondial, care s-a impus cu scorul de
    6-3, 6-3 într-o oră şi 29 de minute de joc. Ţiriac Foundation Trophy este un
    turneu WTA 125 organizat de Federaţia Română de Tenis şi susţinut de Fundaţia
    Ţiriac. Organizatorii oferă premii totale în valoare de 115.000 dolari şi 160
    de puncte în clasamentul WTA pentru câştigătoare.


    În etapa
    a 11-a a ligii 1 romane la fotbal, luni s-au jucat ultimele două meciuri. CS
    Mioveni a cedat cu 0-1 pe teren propriu în fata Universității Cluj, iar FCSB a
    remizat, pe teren propriu, scor 1-1, cu FC Voluntari. În clasament conduce
    Farul cu 21 puncte, urmată de Rapid, tot cu 21 puncte, și FC Hermannstadt cu 19
    puncte.


    Rămânem
    la fotbal pentru a consemna rezultatul meciului dintre Dinamo și Steaua, odată
    considerat derby-ul României. Acum s-a jucat în etapa a 6-a a ligii a II-a și
    s-a încheiat cu victoria Stelei, scor 2-1.


    Campionul
    mondial la canoe Cătălin Chirilă a primit sâmbătă seara, pe scena Festivalului
    Ivan Patzaichin, titlul de cetăţean de onoare al municipiului Tulcea. Chirilă a
    devenit în luna august campion mondial la Dartmouth, în Canada, și european, la
    Munchen, în Germania, în proba de canoe simplu pe distanța de 1000 de metri.

    Chirilă
    a dedicat titlul european multiplului campion olimpic Ivan Patzaichin, iar la
    ceremonie a spus de ce a făcut-o: îmi amintesc câtă emoţie mi-au oferit
    imaginile cu Ivan Patzaichin în timp ce vâsleam pe acelaşi canal. Am simţit că
    mă întorc în timp, deoarece pista a rămas neschimbată şi din acest motiv am
    simţit că medalia trebuie să-i fie dedicată lui.


  • Info Sport

    Info Sport

    Jucătoarea română de tenis Sorana Cîrstea, nr. 38
    mondial și principală favorită, a fost eliminată suprinzător în primul tur al
    turneului Ţiriac Foundation Trophy de la Bucureşti. Ea a cedat în fața
    elveţiancei Simona Waltert, numărul 118 mondial, care s-a impus cu scorul de
    6-3, 6-3 într-o oră şi 29 de minute de joc. Ţiriac Foundation Trophy este un
    turneu WTA 125 organizat de Federaţia Română de Tenis şi susţinut de Fundaţia
    Ţiriac. Organizatorii oferă premii totale în valoare de 115.000 dolari şi 160
    de puncte în clasamentul WTA pentru câştigătoare.


    În etapa
    a 11-a a ligii 1 romane la fotbal, luni s-au jucat ultimele două meciuri. CS
    Mioveni a cedat cu 0-1 pe teren propriu în fata Universității Cluj, iar FCSB a
    remizat, pe teren propriu, scor 1-1, cu FC Voluntari. În clasament conduce
    Farul cu 21 puncte, urmată de Rapid, tot cu 21 puncte, și FC Hermannstadt cu 19
    puncte.


    Rămânem
    la fotbal pentru a consemna rezultatul meciului dintre Dinamo și Steaua, odată
    considerat derby-ul României. Acum s-a jucat în etapa a 6-a a ligii a II-a și
    s-a încheiat cu victoria Stelei, scor 2-1.


    Campionul
    mondial la canoe Cătălin Chirilă a primit sâmbătă seara, pe scena Festivalului
    Ivan Patzaichin, titlul de cetăţean de onoare al municipiului Tulcea. Chirilă a
    devenit în luna august campion mondial la Dartmouth, în Canada, și european, la
    Munchen, în Germania, în proba de canoe simplu pe distanța de 1000 de metri.

    Chirilă
    a dedicat titlul european multiplului campion olimpic Ivan Patzaichin, iar la
    ceremonie a spus de ce a făcut-o: îmi amintesc câtă emoţie mi-au oferit
    imaginile cu Ivan Patzaichin în timp ce vâsleam pe acelaşi canal. Am simţit că
    mă întorc în timp, deoarece pista a rămas neschimbată şi din acest motiv am
    simţit că medalia trebuie să-i fie dedicată lui.


  • August 21, 2022

    August 21, 2022

    BANK According to Central Bank forecasts the annual
    inflation rate in Romania will slightly go down only in the last quarter of the
    year. The bank says the annual inflation rate ceased to rise in June and is
    expected to fluctuate for a while then to slightly go down for the next three
    quarters. Inflation has been forecast to stay around 13.9% in December exceeding
    the initial predictions of 12.5%. According to the Central Bank, inflationist
    pressures are to be seriously felt in April next year, after schemes aimed at capping
    electricity prices will have ended. In an attempt to keep inflation at bay, the
    bank decided to raise the key interest rate from 4.47% to 5.5%.










    HOLIDAY Seaside resorts on the Romanian Black Sea
    coast are functioning at full capacity these days in spite of the high accommodation
    prices. Prices are expected to go down next week under a yearly programme
    entitled ‘Seaside for everyone’ due to kick off on August 28th.
    According to representatives of the Employers Association in the Romanian
    tourism, roughly 100 hotels are getting ready to accommodate tourists for
    prices 75% lower than at the peak of the season.










    MEDALS Romanian athlete Catalin Chirila won bronze
    in the 500 meter race at the Canoe Sprint European Championships in Munich. A
    world’s vice-champion in Halifax, Canada, Chirila also reaped gold in the 1000 meter
    single canoe race in Munich. Another two athletes from Romania, Constantin
    Popovici and Catalin Preda walked away with gold and silver from the high diving
    event of the European Aquatics Championships held in Rome. Popovici made
    history as the first European champion in this event with 455.70 points. Preda,
    who took the lead after the first three rounds, eventually ended second with
    436.20 points. Italian Alessandro De Rose came third in the aforementioned
    event. Constantin’s namesake David claimed two European titles and a world
    record in the pool and has been designated the best athlete in the men’s events
    at the present edition of the Aquatics in Rome.


    VOLLEYBALL Romania’s national men’s volleyball side
    have qualified for the European Championships due next year after a 3-0 win
    against Albania in their last away game in the preliminary group G. Romania
    ranks first in the group with 5 wins and 15 points followed by Switzerland with
    12 points, Bosnia-Herzegovina 4 points and Albania with two. The seven winning
    sides of the preliminaries as well as the best five runner-ups are qualified
    for the final tournament. Romania won a European title in 1963, two silver
    medals in 1955 and 1958 and two bronze in 1971 and 1977. At the 2019 edition of
    the European Championship our side ranked 21st.








    DIPLOMACY According to the spokeswoman for the
    Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, Russia will have a proper response
    to Bucharest’s decision to declare persona non grata an employee of its embassy
    in Romania. Zakharova says that Romania has declared the Russian employee
    persona non grata ‘without any reason and under exaggerated pretexts’. The
    Romanian Foreign Ministry says that a decision to expel the Russian employee
    has been made because the person was involved in activities incompatible with
    the Vienna Convention of 1961 concerning diplomatic relations, a generic
    definition for espionage allegations.




    (bill)

  • August 20, 2022 UPDATE

    August 20, 2022 UPDATE

    Inflation — In Romania, the annual inflation rate will have minor fluctuations until the end of September and then it will take a downward path for 3 quarters, according to the National Bank of Romania – BNR. It expects the inflation rate to reach 13.9% in December. On the other hand, the BNR warns that the forecasts regarding the economic activity for next year are significantly revised downwards. According to the Central Bank, next year Romania will experience a significant drop in private consumption, under the influence of the gradual increase in interest rates on the population’s loans and deposits. The government has recently adopted the first budget rectification of 2022, a positive one, which takes into account an economic growth of 3.5%, the budget revenues for the first six months and the budget execution during this period. The Finance Minister, Adrian Caciu, claims that the budget deficit can be kept under control and that the target of 5.84% for the end of the year is achievable. The Fiscal Council, an independent body that analyzes the sustainability of fiscal and budgetary policies, warned that the rectification could lead to a figure exceeding the target deficit of 7% of GDP, because the government allegedly overestimated the receipts and underestimated part of the expenses.



    Film – Romanian films were awarded prizes at the Sarajevo International Film Festival, which ended on Friday evening with the awards ceremony, the Romanian Cultural Institute – ICR reports. The animation film “Amok”, directed by Balazs Turai (Hungary, Romania, 2022), which was screened for the first time in the region, won the Heart of Sarajevo award for best short film. “My Muslim Husband”, directed by Daniel Bărnuţi and Alexandra Lizeta Bărnuţi, received the “Movies that matter” award in the CineLink Industry Days section. “Freedom”, the newest film directed by Tudor Giurgiu, producer Oana Giurgiu, received the Jury Award sponsored by Debee Studio, at the CineLink Work In Progress section. The list of winners from the CineLink section also includes producer and director Oana Giurgiu, who won the EAVE Award (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) in the CineLink Co-Production Market Awards section. Ten Romanian cinematographic productions were presented at the 28th edition of the Sarajevo festival, organized in partnership with ICR.



    Kayak — The Romanian athlete, Cătălin Chirilă, won the gold medal in the men’s canoe single 1000m final, on Saturday, at the European Kayak-Canoe Championships in Munich. Chirilă (24 years old), a world champion in this event, at the beginning of the month, in Canada, led the entire race, being followed, in the final ranking, by the Czech Martin Fuksa, and the Italian Carlo Tacchini. The latest European medal in the canoe single 1,000 m event had been won in 2011, in Belgrade, by Iosif Chirilă (silver), and the latest European title had been won by Florin Mironcic, in 2006, in Racice. Chirilă (with the CSA Steaua club) will participate, on Sunday, in the canoe single 500m final, in which he is world vice-champion in Halifax (Canada). Also on Saturday, the Romanian athlete Oleg Nuţă ranked eighth in the men’s canoe single 200m final.



    Volleyball – Romanias womens national volleyball team defeated the team of Israel 3-0 on Saturday in Piatra Neamţ, in their debut match in Group A of the 2023 European Championship preliminaries. On Sunday, the other match in the group will take place between Croatia and the Faroe Islands. Romania will play the next match on August 24, in the Faroe Islands. The teams ranked on the first two positions will qualify for the final tournament.



    Covid – More than 3,860 new cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been registered in the last 24 hours in Romania, after 16,900 tests were made, the Health Ministry announced on Saturday. 21 deaths were also reported. On the other hand, the protective mask will not be mandatory in schools and no special sanitary measures will be taken, says the prefect of Bucharest, Toni Grebla. Upon checking the stage of preparations for the beginning of the school year, the prefect explained that no additional measures have been discussed that would be imposed in educational units, in the context of the increase in the number of Covid cases. Recently, the Health Minister Alexandru Rafila said that he recommended the use of protective masks in schools, but the only additional protection measure would be the ventilation of the classrooms. (LS)

  • Athlete of the week

    Athlete of the week

    The ICF 2022 Canoe Sprint World Championships were
    held in Halifax, Canada, last week. The
    competition lived up to everyone’s expectations in every respect; nautical
    sports lovers had the chance the watch, live or via video transmissions, the
    best of the best in terms of rowing. In Canada, a 6-strong Romanian delegation proved
    its mettle in the competition, with three athletes competing in the kayak and three
    others in the canoe races. The gender balance also worked, as two women and one
    man competed in the kayak races, while two men and one woman took the start in
    the canoe events. The differences lay in the clubs rowers are signed up by: three
    of them compete for CSA Steaua, two for CS Dinamo, while one woman rower is
    signed up by Olimpia Bucharest. The Romanian Kayak-Canoe Federation’s set
    target was the earning of a position among places 4 to 6, and another position,
    among places 6 to 9, so the eventual aim was the qualification to two separate
    finals. The set target was met from the very first days of competition, when Catalin
    Chirila advanced to the 500 and 1000m men’s canoe final. Chirila succeeded a
    straight qualification, each time winning the heat he competed in. In the final, Catalin Chirila
    provided a stunning surprise: he became world champion in the
    1000m Olympic race and won silver in the 500m race. Reason enough for Radio
    Romania International to designate Catalin Chirila the Athlete of the week.


    Cătălin Chirilă was
    born in Tulcea, on 11 May 11, 1998. He is signed up by the Steaua Bucharest
    Army Sports Club. His coaches are Petre Kondrat, who works for the army club
    and Florin Popescu, of the national team. Catalin Chirila’s first international
    performance occurred in the men’s canoe double, when, jointly with veteran
    rower Victor Mihalachi, Chirila won gold in 2019, in the European Games in Minsk, Belarus, in the 1000m race. Then in 2021, in the European Championships in Poland’s
    Poznan, Chirila won bronze in the 1000m race. In the Tokyo Olympics’, the Chirila/Mihalachi
    pair came in 5th. As of 2022, Catalin Chirila competes in men’s
    singles events. At the World Cup stages in Racice and Poznan, Catalin Chirila’s
    results were promising. The Romanian confirmed his excellent performance so far in his most recent notable run in
    Halifax.(EN)