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  • Athlete of the week

    Athlete of the week

    Athlete Mădălina Florea came in 6th in the women’s Mountain classic event as part of the World Mountain and Trail Running Championship in Austria’s Innsbruck-Stubai. Madalina clocked one hour, seven minutes and 25 hundredths of a second, in the 15.5- kilometer event, held at an altitude of 760 meters, The winner was US athlete Grayson Murphy, with a timing of one hour, four minutes and 29 seconds, As part of the same event, Magdalena Bosânceanu came in 46th, Adelina Panaet came in 48th, while Liliana Dragomir came in 54th.



    For her remarkable feat in the recently-held Championships, Radio Romania International has designated Mădălina Florea the Athlete of the week.



    30-year-old Madalina Florea was born on February 3rd, 1993 in central Romania’s Sighisoara. Initially, Madalina was into rhythmic gymnastics for three years, trying her hand at the ribbon, rope, ball and the pair of clubs. Madalina Florea took a completely different career path in sports, taking up athletics and also playing football with her colleagues while on training sessions. In her senior’s career, Madalina scooped gold in the semi-marathon held in Bucharest, in 2014. Then in Great Britain’s Birmingham, in 2016, Madalina walked away with silver, also in the semi-marathon. Also in 2016, she won bronze in the teams’ competition as part of the European cross-country Championships in Chia, Italy. In 2017, in Abidjan on the Ivory Coast, Madalina took part in the Francophony Games, where she came in 4th in the 5,000m race. As part of the same event, Madalina Florea came in 3rd in the 10,000m race.



    In 2018, Madalina sustained a serious ankle injury and the ensuing surgical operation kept her away from the track for one year. In 2019 however, she had a vigorous comeback and won the semi-marathon in Bucharest, reenacting her performance of 2014. Also in 2019, at the World Mountain and Trail Running Championship held in Angostura, Argentina, Madalina walked home with bronze in the nations’ competition. In 2022, Madalina Florea’s record included a silver medal in the World Mountain Running Championship in El Paso, Spain.




  • Athlete of the week

    Athlete of the week

    Athlete Mădălina Florea came in 6th in the women’s Mountain classic event as part of the World Mountain and Trail Running Championship in Austria’s Innsbruck-Stubai. Madalina clocked one hour, seven minutes and 25 hundredths of a second, in the 15.5- kilometer event, held at an altitude of 760 meters, The winner was US athlete Grayson Murphy, with a timing of one hour, four minutes and 29 seconds, As part of the same event, Magdalena Bosânceanu came in 46th, Adelina Panaet came in 48th, while Liliana Dragomir came in 54th.



    For her remarkable feat in the recently-held Championships, Radio Romania International has designated Mădălina Florea the Athlete of the week.



    30-year-old Madalina Florea was born on February 3rd, 1993 in central Romania’s Sighisoara. Initially, Madalina was into rhythmic gymnastics for three years, trying her hand at the ribbon, rope, ball and the pair of clubs. Madalina Florea took a completely different career path in sports, taking up athletics and also playing football with her colleagues while on training sessions. In her senior’s career, Madalina scooped gold in the semi-marathon held in Bucharest, in 2014. Then in Great Britain’s Birmingham, in 2016, Madalina walked away with silver, also in the semi-marathon. Also in 2016, she won bronze in the teams’ competition as part of the European cross-country Championships in Chia, Italy. In 2017, in Abidjan on the Ivory Coast, Madalina took part in the Francophony Games, where she came in 4th in the 5,000m race. As part of the same event, Madalina Florea came in 3rd in the 10,000m race.



    In 2018, Madalina sustained a serious ankle injury and the ensuing surgical operation kept her away from the track for one year. In 2019 however, she had a vigorous comeback and won the semi-marathon in Bucharest, reenacting her performance of 2014. Also in 2019, at the World Mountain and Trail Running Championship held in Angostura, Argentina, Madalina walked home with bronze in the nations’ competition. In 2022, Madalina Florea’s record included a silver medal in the World Mountain Running Championship in El Paso, Spain.




  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    World no. 3 in
    women’s tennis and Romanian no. 1 Simona Halep on Monday night confirmed on
    Twitter that she will be unable to travel to Tokyo for the Olympic Games
    because of a calf injury. An announcement regarding her withdrawal had already
    been made by the president of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee Mihai
    Covaliu, who told Agerpres that Halep decided not to go to Tokyo after doctors
    who examined her this week told her she would not be able to play tennis for at
    least another four weeks. In May, Halep was forced to withdraw in the second
    round in Rome with the injury and also missed Roland Garros and Wimbledon.




    Simona Halep is the
    best player in the history of Romanian women’s tennis. She was born on 27 September
    1991 in Constanţa. In October 2017 she became number one in the world, a
    position she kept until January 2018. She went back to being number one that
    same year in February, and stayed there until after the start of 2019, after
    the Australian Open, when she was no. one for 64 weeks. She won two Grand Slam
    tournament tiles, at Roland Garros in 2018 and Wimbledon in 2019 and 22 WTA
    titles. She took part in the 2012 Olympic Games in London where she lost in the
    first round. In 2016 she missed the Rio Games because of fears over the Zika
    virus. (CM)

  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    World no. 3 in
    women’s tennis and Romanian no. 1 Simona Halep on Monday night confirmed on
    Twitter that she will be unable to travel to Tokyo for the Olympic Games
    because of a calf injury. An announcement regarding her withdrawal had already
    been made by the president of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee Mihai
    Covaliu, who told Agerpres that Halep decided not to go to Tokyo after doctors
    who examined her this week told her she would not be able to play tennis for at
    least another four weeks. In May, Halep was forced to withdraw in the second
    round in Rome with the injury and also missed Roland Garros and Wimbledon.




    Simona Halep is the
    best player in the history of Romanian women’s tennis. She was born on 27 September
    1991 in Constanţa. In October 2017 she became number one in the world, a
    position she kept until January 2018. She went back to being number one that
    same year in February, and stayed there until after the start of 2019, after
    the Australian Open, when she was no. one for 64 weeks. She won two Grand Slam
    tournament tiles, at Roland Garros in 2018 and Wimbledon in 2019 and 22 WTA
    titles. She took part in the 2012 Olympic Games in London where she lost in the
    first round. In 2016 she missed the Rio Games because of fears over the Zika
    virus. (CM)

  • May 13, 2021

    May 13, 2021

    ALERT As of today, the state of alert in Romania is extended by another month. Some restrictions have been lifted, however, such as the one regarding participation in religious processions or pilgrimages. Other measures still remain in place. Pilot cultural and sports events will also be organised, with attendance allowed for people who have got the vaccine, who have recovered from COVID-19 in the past 3 months, or who test negative for the disease. Private or public celebrations or parties, whether indoors or outdoors, are still banned.



    COVID-19 President Klaus Iohannis has a working meeting scheduled today with PM Florin Cîţu, several other Cabinet members, the head of the Department for Emergency Situations, Raed Arafat, and the head of the National Infectious Disease Monitoring and Control Centre with the Public Health Institute, Adriana Pistol. Also attending will be deputy PM Dan Barna, the interior minister Lucian Bode, the defence minister Nicolae Ciucă, and the health minister Ioana Mihăilă. The meeting will focus on the lifting of COVID-19 containment measures. Some 130,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses are scheduled to reach Bucharest today. So far, Romania has received over 2.2 million vaccine doses from the British-Swedish company. More than 3.7 million people have received Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca jabs in Romania, and two-thirds of them have also got the booster dose. Meanwhile, the entire country is in the so-called green scenario. According to the Strategic Communication Group, the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate in Bucharest is 1.42 per thousand. On Thursday 953 new COVID-19 cases and 75 related deaths were reported, as well as 829 patients in intensive care.



    CONFERENCE The Romanian foreign minister Bogdan Aurescu and his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias co-chair today an informal conference call of EU foreign ministers. Also attending the online meeting are the foreign ministers of Albania, Olta Xhacka and of North Macedonia, Bujar Osmani, as well as EU officials. According to the Romanian foreign ministry, Bogdan Aurescu will emphasise that ‘the EU enlargement process must remain a major priority for the Union, given the transforming power of this European policy.’ Todays meeting takes place after a recent meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council, which included a strategic discussion on the Western Balkans, at the request of Romania and other member states.



    VISIT The Romanian Senate Speaker Anca Dragu is on a 3-day official visit to Spain, as of today, at the invitation of her counterpart Maria Pilar Llop Cuenca. The visit is aimed at strengthening political dialogue and the traditional friendship between the 2 countries. On the same occasion, in the Patio de los Naranjos Hall of the Spanish Senate, an Exhibition of Romanian and Spanish Diplomatic Archives will be opened. The exhibition is devoted to the 140 years of diplomatic relations between the 2 countries. The Romanian delegation will also have online meetings with members of the Romanian community in Spain, and will visit the NATO Combined Air Operations Centre and the EU Satellite Centre.



    CORRUPTION The former mayor of Bucharests Sector 5, Marian Vanghelie, was sentenced on Thursday to 11 years and 8 months in prison, in a corruption case. The ruling is not final. He was also ordered to pay damages of over 15 million euro to the Bucharest Sector 5 City Hall. Marian Vanghelie was indicted in 2015 for 9 counts of bribe-taking and abuse of office and 7 counts of money laundering. According to the National Anti-Corruption Directorate, in 2006 – 2014, Marian Vanghelie, then a mayor, asked for and received undue benefits in the amount of nearly 30 million euro (accounting for a fee of 20% of the contracts). A former member of the Social Democratic Party (in opposition), Marian Vanghelie was a mayor between 2000 and 2016, and in the 2020 local elections he ran unsuccessfully for a new term in office.



    ISRAEL Hamas fired rockets on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem early on Thursday, with Israel promising to carry on strikes against the Islamist group in Gaza, although the US president Joe Biden had said the clashes, the most violent in recent years, will be over soon, Reuters reports. Over 1,000 rockets fired from Gaza strip on Monday hit Israel, and scores of people were killed and hundreds wounded so far, mostly Palestinians. The president of the European Council, Charles Michel, called for the de-escalation of the conflict.



    TENNIS The Romanian tennis player Simona Halep, number 3 in the world, announced having suffered a torn calf muscle which forced her out of the Italian Open, in Wednesdays match against Germanys Angelique Kerber. She says she will have an MRI investigation to determine how serious the injury is. The defending champion in Foro Italico, the Romanian player withdrew in the second set of the match against Kerber, after she had won the first set. Given the preliminary diagnosis, she risks missing the Roland Garros tournament due to start on May 30. Halep won the Paris tournament in 2018. (tr. A.M. Popescu)