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  • February 9, 2025

    February 9, 2025

    TALKS Romania’s Senate will next week be hosting talks with representatives of real estate agencies, notary public, and the National Agency for Cadastre. The MPs want to include in the legislation regulations for the better protection of those who want to buy houses from real estate developers. Three draft laws have already been submitted to Parliament in this respect. The move comes after hundreds of people affected by the Nordis fraudulent scheme have called for amendments to the legislation. The former PSD MP, Laura Vicol, her husband Vladimir Ciorba who is also the main shareholder in the Nordis Group, and other three persons have been placed in preventive detention in connection with the aforementioned file. The investigation is focusing on natural persons and companies accused of having raked in more than 195 million Euros from customers without giving them the apartments they paid for.

     

    VOTE Over 2 thousand Romanian eligible voters residing abroad have so far registered on the website of the Permanent Election Authority to cast their ballot by mail in the presidential election due in May this year. The registration deadline is March 20th and, according to official figures, most registrations came from Germany, Britain, Switzerland, France and Spain. Romania will be hosting presidential election on May 4 and 18. We recall the first presidential round was invalidated by the Constitutional Court in December last year due to interferences in the election process.

     

    CUP Romania’s national fifteen has qualified for World Cup 2027 after a 31-14 win on Saturday against the Belgian side in Rugby Europe Championship. Romania has thus ensured its 10th participation in the World Cup. Only in 2019, Romania was not allowed to attend the competition because it used an ineligible player in the qualifiers. In its debut match in Rugby Europe Championship 2025, Romania secured a 48-10 home win against Germany. Our players will be having their last match at home against Portugal on February 15. Romania ranks first in the standings with nine points followed by Portugal, Germany and Belgium. The first two sides are qualified for World Cup 2027.

     

    SPORTS CS Gloria 2018 Bistrita Nasaud, a women’s handball side from northern Romania, was outperformed by Slovenian side Krim Ljubljana 28-25 on Saturday in an away match counting towards group A of the Champions League. After that game, Gloria has few chances to qualify for the play-offs. In the same group today, CSM Bucharest takes on RK Podravka of Croatia. In the competition’s group B, Rapid Bucharest takes on Ludwigsburg of Germany. In tennis competitions, the Romanian-Italian pair Jaqueline Cristian/Angelica Moratelli has qualified for the doubles finals of the tennis tournament Transylvania Open (WTA 250), a competition hosted by Cluj-Napoca, in north-western Romania, with more than 275 thousand dollars in prize money. The two have clinched a 6-3, 6-2 win against Katarzyna Piter of Poland and Aleksandra Sasnovici of Belarus. In the finals today Cristian and Moratelli will be up against Magali Kempen of Belgium and Ana Siskova of the Czech Republic.

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  • Sports roundup

    Sports roundup

    Romanian athletes walked away with four medals from the European Throwing Cup held in Leira, Portugal. Alin Firfirică became gold medalist in the discus throw event on Saturday, while on Sunday, Bianca Ghelber and Alexandru Novac won silver in the hammer throw and javelin events of the same competition. Also in the javelin throw, but in the under-23 competition, Vlad Alexandru Turcu stepped onto the podium’s third step.

     

    Friday and Saturday saw the quarter-finals matches of the regional ice hockey competition Erste League. ACSH Gheorgheni is leading 2-0 the Hungarian side Ujpest, after a 2-1 win on Friday and 4-3 on Saturday on their own ground. Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc secured a 2-1 and 1-0 away victories against Budapest Jegkorong Academia. In Brașov, southern Romania, local side Corona conceded defeats to Jegesmedvek Miskolc, 3-2 in the first match and 3-1 in the second. The matches are taking place after ‘the best in seven games’ system.

     

    CSM CSU Constanța and CSM Târgoviște won the semis of Romania’s Cup in women’s basketball held in Sfântu Gheorghe on Sunday. CSU defeated the title-holder Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe, 88-80. The vice-champions managed their second win this season against the en titre champions from Covasna. In the other semifinals game, CSM Târgoviște outperformed CSM Alexandria, 81-54. The finals is due on Monday.

     

    Last weekend saw the football games counting towards the 30th leg of Romania’s Superleague. Friday saw five matches: CFR, on their own turf, secured a 1-0 win against Hermannstadt. Dinamo obtained the same 1-0 win in Bucharest against UTA Arad. In Ploiești, Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe clinched a 2-1 victory against local side Petrolul. FC Voluntari versus Universitatea Cluj and FC Botoșani versus Farul Constanța ended in goaless draws.

     

    At the National Arena in Bucharest on Saturday Rapid secured a 4-0 win against the team, which tops the table, FCSB. On Sunday in a local derby in Craiova, southern Romania, Universitatea obtained a 2-1 win against FCU 1948.

    The leg’s last match pitches Oțelul Galați against Poli Iași on Monday. FCSB goes into the play-off with 32 points followed by Rapid with 28, CFR with 27, Universitatea Craiova, with 25, then Farul and Sepsi, each with 22 points. In the play-offs first leg, on Friday Rapid takes on Farul Constanta in Bucharest, while on Saturday, CFR Cluj plays at home Universitatea Craiova. FCSB is taking on Sepsi in Bucharest on Sunday.

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  • Sports Flash

    Sports Flash

    The Romanian womens basketball side Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe on Wednesday got their second and most clear win in the Euroleague. The Romanian champions secured an 88-58 home win against Polish side Lublin, in the competitions Group A. US player Morgan Green was the best player of the Romanian side with 19 points, 5 recoveries and 9 decisive contributions. The win has pushed Sepsi to the seventh position in the groups ranking. Before the game, Sepsi was at the bottom of group A.


    The Romanians will next take on Valencia Basket Club on their own ground on January 10th.


    In the mens group B of the Eurocup competition, Romanias side U-BT Cluj-Napoca lost to French side Bourg-en-Bresse, 98-89. With eight wins, U-BT ranks third in the 10-side group after Dreamland Gran Canaria and Bourg-en Bresse, each with 10 victories. U-BT will be taking on Buducnost Podgorica in an away game on December 27th.


    Hungarian capital, Budapest, is hosting an international water polo tournament. Romanias male side lost to Spain 15-7. This has been their third failure in a row after those against Serbia, 5-15 and 8-15 to Hungary.


    Romanias football Superleague has this week seen the matches of its 21st leg, the last this year. On Tuesday in Craiova, southern Romania, local side, FC U 1948, secured a 2-0 victory against Petrolul Ploiesti, while in Iaşi, north-eastern Romania, FCSB clinched a 3-1 win against local side Poli. Two matches ended in a draw on Wednesday, UTA Arad versus Universitatea Craiova 2 all and Farul Constanţa versus Rapid Bucharest, 0 all. Hermannstadt plays Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe on Thursday and CFR Cluj takes on Universitatea Cluj. The legs last two matches will be on Friday, when Oţelul Galaţi plays FC Botoşani and Dinamo Bucharest takes on FC Voluntari. FCSB ranks first in the standings with 44 points followed by Universitatea Craiova with 34. The Superleagues championship is to resume on January 19th.


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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    The WTA 250 women’s tennis tournament
    in Cluj-Napoca, western Romania, ended on Sunday with the victory of German
    tennis player Tamara Korpatsch who defeated Elena Gabriela Ruse in the finals 6-3,
    6-4. The best result she got this year has also brought the Romanian 20,226 dollars
    and 180 WTA points, whereas Korpatsch got 34,228 dollars and 280 WTA points.




    Both the Romanian handball sides playing in
    the Champions League have been defeated by their opponents. On Saturday,
    Romania’s champions CSM Bucharest lost on their own ground to French side Brest
    Bretagne 30 – 28. Cristina Neagu was the best Romanian scorer with 8 goals
    scored. In Group A, CSM ranks fourth with four points and will be up against
    Buducnost Podgorica in Montenegro.




    In Group B, Rapid Bucharest was
    thrashed by French side Metz 33-22. The best scorer of the Romanian side was
    Serbian Andela Janjusevic, with four goals scored. With only three points in
    the present edition of the aforementioned league, after a win, a draw and three
    defeats, Rapid ranks only 6th in the group and will be up against
    Krim Ljubljana in a home match.


    In the regional ice hockey competition
    Erste League, ACSH Gheorgheni secured a 6-0 home win against Hungarian side Jegesmedvék
    of Miskolc. In Brasov, local side Corona lost to the competition’s leader Újpest
    Budapest, 1-2. Also on their own ground, Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc, lost 4 – 6 to
    Hungarian side Budapest Jégkorong Akadémia.




    Last weekend saw the matches of
    the 13th leg of the Romanian Football Superleague. On Friday in
    Oradea, UTA Arad versus Rapid Bucharest ended in a two-all draw. On Saturday,
    in Sibiu, central Romania, local side Hermannstadt clinched a 4-0 win against
    Dinamo Bucharest, while in Ovidiu, southern Romania, local team Farul Constanta
    and Universitatea Cluj ended their match in a one-all draw.


    On Sunday in Iasi, the match
    pitting local side Politehnica against FC U Craiova 1948 ended in a one-all
    draw whereas Petrolul Ploieşti secured a 3-1 away win against Universitatea
    Craiova. FCSB versus FC Voluntari ended in a goaless draw.


    Two matches to take place on
    Monday: Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe plays FC Botoşani and CFR Cluj takes on Oţelul
    Galaţi. FCSB tops the ranking with 30 points, followed by CFR with 26.


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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    Romanian gymnast Andrei
    Muntean has qualified for the Olympic Games in Paris next year after ranking
    30th in the individual all-round qualifiers of the World Gymnastics
    Championships in Antwerp. This will be his second participation in the Olympics
    after the edition in Rio in 2016. Unfortunately no athlete from our delegation played
    in the finals of the present edition of the World Gymnastics Championship and Romania’s
    team has again failed to qualify for the Olympics, ending the competition in
    the 22nd place.


    We move to women’s
    handball now as in the Champions League Group B, Rapid Bucharest ended in a
    24-all draw their away game against Hungarian side Ferencvaros on Saturday.
    Rapid ranks sixth in the group with 3 points out of 4 games.


    In Group A on
    Sunday, CSM Bucharest secured a 41-26 win against Swedish champions Savehof and
    are presently ranking fourth in the group with 4 points. The Champions League
    resumes in three weeks.


    In the European
    League, Romanian side Dunarea Braila has qualified for the third preliminary
    round after a 30-14 home win against Valur Reykjavik of Iceland. Dunarea also
    won the away game 30-29 and will be up against German side Borussia Dortmund in
    the third preliminary round. The first game will be an away one for the
    Romanians on November 11th or 12th and the second game in Braila on November
    18th or 19th. Borussia Dortmund ended the previous edition of the
    aforementioned competition in the third position.


    At the World Rugby
    Cup underway in France, Romania’s national rugby side has registered their
    third defeat in a row. Our players came a cropper against Scotland 84-nil on
    Saturday. Romania also lost to Ireland 82-8 and 76-nil to South Africa.


    Let’s move on to
    football now. Last weekend saw the matches of the 11th leg of Romania’s
    Superleague. On Friday Otelul Galati secured a 1-nil home win against Dinamo
    Bucharest, while on Saturday in Arad, western Romania, local side UTA ended in
    a goaless draw their match against FC Voluntari. On their own turf, Farul
    Constanta, clinched a 2-1 win against Sepsi. On Sunday in Craiova,
    south-western Romania local side Universitatea obtained a 5-1 win against FC
    Botosani, while the match in Sibiu, central Romania, pitching the local side
    Hermannstadt against Rapid Bucharest ended in a draw, one-all. In Cluj, western Romania, the local team CFR outperformed FCU Craiova 1948 2-nil. FCSB tops the ranking with 25 points followed
    by CFR with 22.


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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup


    Romanian athlete Alina Rotaru-Kottmann has walked away with bronze from the long jump event at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. In the finals held on Sunday, Alinas longest jump measured 6 meters and 88 centimeters, which is the best result so far obtained by this athlete who is currently competing for Steaua Bucharest sports club.


    The gold medal was won by Ivana Vuleta of Serbia, with 7 meters and 14 centimeters, the worlds best performance this year. Tara Davis Woodhall of the USA came third with a jump of 6 meters and 91 centimeters.


    Romanias Super-cup in mens handball went to Dinamo Bucharest. On Sunday in Bucharest, Dinamo secured a 25-20 win against CSM Constanta. Ukrainian Andrii Akimenko was the best scorer of the victors with 6 goals. Dinamo also won the trophy in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022. In the small finals Minaur Baia Mare outperformed CSU Suceava 47-43.


    Romanias rugby side has ended its training matches for the World Cup starting in France in September. In the last game, the Romanians lost to Italy in San Benedetto del Tronto 57-7. Romania played without a man since the ninth minute after Adrian Motoc had been given an early shower. In the other two test-matches, Romania lost to the United States in Bucharest 31-17 and to Georgia 56-6 in Tbilisi. The Romanian fifteen will be first taking on Ireland in Bordeaux on September 9th.


    Last weekend saw the matches of the sixth leg of the Romanian Football Superleague. On Friday, Petrolul outperformed FCU Craiova 1948 4-3, while Universitatea Craiova defeated UTA Arad 3-0. On Saturday, FC Botosani ended in a goaless draw their home match against Otelul Galati, while Dinamo Bucharest outperformed FC Voluntari 3-2. On Sunday, in Bucharest, Rapid secured a 3-1 win against Farul Constanta, while FCSB clinched 2-1 victory against Poli Iasi


    On Monday Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe takes on Hermannstadt and Universitatea Cluj plays CFR Cluj. FCSB comes first in the ranking with 15 points out of 5 matches, followed by Universitatea Craiova with 14 points out of 6 matches.


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  • Rapid Bucharest 100 years

    Rapid Bucharest 100 years

    On June 25 1923, several rail
    workers of the Grivita workshops laid the foundations of one of the most
    beloved clubs in the Romanian sports history: Rapid Bucharest. The aforementioned
    workers were at that time members of the Cultural and Sports Association CFR
    Bucharest and the club’s football side became one of the most popular in
    Romania. In the period between the two world wars, the rail footballers managed
    to accomplish several notable results. They had claimed seven editions of
    Romania’s Cup by 1942 and in 1940 they had made it to the finals of the Central
    European Cup, which was cancelled by the war.




    Rapid footballers managed to win the first Romanian championship only in 1967
    over 40 years since the club’s foundation. With Valentin Stanescu at the helm,
    Rapid’s lineup at that time was considered the best in the entire club’s
    history. The team’s strong point was its attacks with Ion Ionescu and Nicky
    Dumitriu as strikers. Along the years, however, Rapid had less fruitful periods,
    with many years in the championship’s second league where it got archrivals
    like Petrolul Ploiesti and Progresul Bucharest. Several decades ago, a game
    pitching Rapid against Petrolul used to bring more fans together than the
    derbies of the first league.




    After a break of 32 years, Rapid became champions under the guidance of the
    famous Romanian headcoach Mircea Lucescu. The team got the title again in 2003
    with Mircea Rednic as coach.




    Rapid also boasts two major
    performances in the European Cups. In the 1972-1973 football season, Rapid made
    it to the quarters of Cup Winners’ Cup where it was eliminated by Leeds United.
    In the 2005-2006 season, this prestigious football side advanced to the
    quarters of the UEFA Cup, where it was eliminated by Steaua Bucharest.




    In recent years though, the
    situation of the club got complicated and the financial issues eventually led
    the club to insolvency and dismantling in late 2016. A year later, upon the
    initiative of the district one city hall, a sports association entitled the
    Rapid Academy was founded and joined Romania’s fourth football league. The
    group purchased the Rapid logo and in three years, made a comeback to the first
    football league, where in 2022 ranked ninth. This year Rapid has qualified for
    the Superleague’s play-offs presently ranking fifth in the standings.




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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    In Poland, the European Games hosted by Crakow and Malopolska region carry on. After 5 days of competitions, Romania is placed 18th in the nations ranking. Romanian athletes have won 8 medals so far, including 2 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze ones. Gold medals went to cyclist Vlad Dascălu, in the mountain bike race, and to athlete Claudia Bobocea, in the womens 1,500m race. Athletes Bianca Ghelber in the hammer throw event, and Daniela Stanciu in the high jump event won silver medals, and so did Cătălin Chirilă in the mens canoe single 500m final. Taking home bronze medals were Ştefan Comănescu, in the mens kumite 67 kg, athlete Andrea Miklos in the womens 400m race, and Mălina Călugăreanu in the womens foil individual final.



    This weekend the Romanian swimmer David Popovici won the 100m and 200m freestyle finals of the “Sette Colli Trophy” international competition in Rome, both with new competition records. In the 200m event, he defeated the Olympic champion Tom Dean. This was the last test for Popovici ahead of the world swimming championships in Fukuoka, Japan, scheduled between 13 and 30 July.



    Romanias womens water polo team won all matches in Group B of the 2024 European Championships qualifiers, held in Otopeni. The Romanians defeated Sweden 14-9, Switzerland 7-5, and Turkey 16-5, respectively, and qualified to the final tournament due in Netanya, Israel in January. Romanias mens team is also taking part in the final tournament in Israel, after finishing top of Group D in the qualifiers. In Kranj, Slovenia, the team coached by Bogdan Rath and George Deacu outplayed Switzerland 19-9 and Finland 19-6, and drew 10-all against the host nation.



    At the European Under-21 Football Championship hosted jointly by Romania and Georgia, the national team takes on Croatia on Tuesday in Group B. In the first 2 group matches, Romania lost 0-3 to Spain on Wednesday, and 0-1 to Ukraine on Saturday.



    Also in football, one of the most popular football clubs in Romania, Rapid Bucharest, this weekend celebrated 100 years of history. Originally a football club of railway workers, Rapid is known for outstanding performances prior to WWI. In 1940, the team qualified for the final of the Central European Cup, which was never played however. The club then grew to cover multiple sports, and achieved top level performances in several fields, including handball and volleyball. (AMP)

  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    In Poland, the European Games hosted by Crakow and Malopolska region carry on. After 5 days of competitions, Romania is placed 18th in the nations ranking. Romanian athletes have won 8 medals so far, including 2 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze ones. Gold medals went to cyclist Vlad Dascălu, in the mountain bike race, and to athlete Claudia Bobocea, in the womens 1,500m race. Athletes Bianca Ghelber in the hammer throw event, and Daniela Stanciu in the high jump event won silver medals, and so did Cătălin Chirilă in the mens canoe single 500m final. Taking home bronze medals were Ştefan Comănescu, in the mens kumite 67 kg, athlete Andrea Miklos in the womens 400m race, and Mălina Călugăreanu in the womens foil individual final.



    This weekend the Romanian swimmer David Popovici won the 100m and 200m freestyle finals of the “Sette Colli Trophy” international competition in Rome, both with new competition records. In the 200m event, he defeated the Olympic champion Tom Dean. This was the last test for Popovici ahead of the world swimming championships in Fukuoka, Japan, scheduled between 13 and 30 July.



    Romanias womens water polo team won all matches in Group B of the 2024 European Championships qualifiers, held in Otopeni. The Romanians defeated Sweden 14-9, Switzerland 7-5, and Turkey 16-5, respectively, and qualified to the final tournament due in Netanya, Israel in January. Romanias mens team is also taking part in the final tournament in Israel, after finishing top of Group D in the qualifiers. In Kranj, Slovenia, the team coached by Bogdan Rath and George Deacu outplayed Switzerland 19-9 and Finland 19-6, and drew 10-all against the host nation.



    At the European Under-21 Football Championship hosted jointly by Romania and Georgia, the national team takes on Croatia on Tuesday in Group B. In the first 2 group matches, Romania lost 0-3 to Spain on Wednesday, and 0-1 to Ukraine on Saturday.



    Also in football, one of the most popular football clubs in Romania, Rapid Bucharest, this weekend celebrated 100 years of history. Originally a football club of railway workers, Rapid is known for outstanding performances prior to WWI. In 1940, the team qualified for the final of the Central European Cup, which was never played however. The club then grew to cover multiple sports, and achieved top level performances in several fields, including handball and volleyball. (AMP)

  • Sports Weekend

    Sports Weekend


    This weekend will be seeing the eighth leg of the Romanian Football Superleague. The race for the first position in the ranking involves Rapid Bucharest, which will be taking on Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe on Friday.


    The most important games for winning the championship and for qualification in the European Cups will take place on Saturday and Sunday. At the top of the table Farul Constanta goes to Craiova to play local side Universitatea, a team ranking fourth, which is hankering for a place in preliminaries of the European competition Conference League. A wrong step taken by Farul at this point is tantamount to failure as only three points are separating them from the runner-up FCSB they are going to meet in Ovidiu on 21st May. FCSB will be up against CFR Cluj, the champions of the past years in Bucharest on Sunday. CFR is presently ranking third and stands slim chances of winning the sixth consecutive title.


    On Friday FC Voluntari plays FC Botoşani while on Saturday, Petrolul Ploieşti, plays on their own turf Hermannstadt. Universitatea Cluj will be up against Chindia Târgovişte, and if they win they will diminish Chindias chances to remain in the Superleague. On Sunday, CS Mioveni, which has already demoted will be playing on their own turf UTA Arad with the same number of points as Chindia and also striving to avoid demotion. Another match in the hot area at the bottom of the table is pitching FC Arges against FCU Craiova, Arges is also making desperate efforts to remain in the first Romanian football league.


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  • Sports Weekend

    Sports Weekend


    This weekend will be seeing the eighth leg of the Romanian Football Superleague. The race for the first position in the ranking involves Rapid Bucharest, which will be taking on Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe on Friday.


    The most important games for winning the championship and for qualification in the European Cups will take place on Saturday and Sunday. At the top of the table Farul Constanta goes to Craiova to play local side Universitatea, a team ranking fourth, which is hankering for a place in preliminaries of the European competition Conference League. A wrong step taken by Farul at this point is tantamount to failure as only three points are separating them from the runner-up FCSB they are going to meet in Ovidiu on 21st May. FCSB will be up against CFR Cluj, the champions of the past years in Bucharest on Sunday. CFR is presently ranking third and stands slim chances of winning the sixth consecutive title.


    On Friday FC Voluntari plays FC Botoşani while on Saturday, Petrolul Ploieşti, plays on their own turf Hermannstadt. Universitatea Cluj will be up against Chindia Târgovişte, and if they win they will diminish Chindias chances to remain in the Superleague. On Sunday, CS Mioveni, which has already demoted will be playing on their own turf UTA Arad with the same number of points as Chindia and also striving to avoid demotion. Another match in the hot area at the bottom of the table is pitching FC Arges against FCU Craiova, Arges is also making desperate efforts to remain in the first Romanian football league.


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  • Sports Weekend

    Sports Weekend

    Today’s sports programme begins
    with the latest from the women’s national handball league. Two of the sides,
    which represented Romania in the European cups, met on Thursday. So, Rapid
    Bucharest, a team qualified for the Champions League quarterfinals was up
    against SCM Ramnicu Valcea, which stopped in the European League’s quarters.




    Rapid clinched a 36-33 win after
    a very balanced game decided in the last minutes. French Orlane Kanor scored most
    of the goals for Rapid whereas Serbian left back Jovana Kovacevic put up the
    best show for the visitors, with 8 goals scored. The vice champions of the last
    year’s edition, CSM Bucharest, are presently topping the ranking with 61 points
    out of 21 matches. Gloria Bistrita and the last year’s champions, Rapid, are
    coming next, each with 49 points out of 20 games.




    The Junior World Artistic
    Championships is underway in Antalya, Turkey. Romania ranked eighth in the
    women’s team contest on Thursday. Gabriela Vănoagă, Crina Tudor and Anamaria
    Mihăescu represented Romania in the aforementioned contest. Japan won gold, the
    USA took silver and Italy bronze. Two Romanians qualified for the individual
    all round finals, Gabriela Vănoagă, in the tenth position and Crina Tudor in
    the twentieth position in terms of the points won. Vănoagă had also qualified
    for the beam finals, where she ranked fourth.




    This weekend will be seeing the
    matches counting towards the second leg of Romania’s Football Superleague.


    So, FC U Craiova takes on Petrolul
    Ploieşti on Friday. On Saturday, UTA plays Universitatea Cluj while Hermannstadt,
    on their own turf, takes on FC Botoşani. On Sunday in Piteşti, southern
    Romania, local side FC Argeş will be up against FC Voluntari, while on Monday, Chindia
    Târgovişte takes on FC Mioveni. On Saturday in Bucharest, local side Rapid will
    be up against Farul Constanţa. Also on Sunday, in Craiova, southwestern
    Romania, local side Universitatea plays CFR Cluj. On Monday in Sfântu Gheorghe,
    central Romania, the local football club, Sepsi OSK, is up against FCSB. Farul
    tops the table with 35 points followed by CFR with 33, FCSB, with 30,
    Universitatea Craiova with 28, Rapid with 27, and Sfântu Gheorghe with 21.

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  • Sports Weekend

    Sports Weekend

    Today’s sports programme begins
    with the latest from the women’s national handball league. Two of the sides,
    which represented Romania in the European cups, met on Thursday. So, Rapid
    Bucharest, a team qualified for the Champions League quarterfinals was up
    against SCM Ramnicu Valcea, which stopped in the European League’s quarters.




    Rapid clinched a 36-33 win after
    a very balanced game decided in the last minutes. French Orlane Kanor scored most
    of the goals for Rapid whereas Serbian left back Jovana Kovacevic put up the
    best show for the visitors, with 8 goals scored. The vice champions of the last
    year’s edition, CSM Bucharest, are presently topping the ranking with 61 points
    out of 21 matches. Gloria Bistrita and the last year’s champions, Rapid, are
    coming next, each with 49 points out of 20 games.




    The Junior World Artistic
    Championships is underway in Antalya, Turkey. Romania ranked eighth in the
    women’s team contest on Thursday. Gabriela Vănoagă, Crina Tudor and Anamaria
    Mihăescu represented Romania in the aforementioned contest. Japan won gold, the
    USA took silver and Italy bronze. Two Romanians qualified for the individual
    all round finals, Gabriela Vănoagă, in the tenth position and Crina Tudor in
    the twentieth position in terms of the points won. Vănoagă had also qualified
    for the beam finals, where she ranked fourth.




    This weekend will be seeing the
    matches counting towards the second leg of Romania’s Football Superleague.


    So, FC U Craiova takes on Petrolul
    Ploieşti on Friday. On Saturday, UTA plays Universitatea Cluj while Hermannstadt,
    on their own turf, takes on FC Botoşani. On Sunday in Piteşti, southern
    Romania, local side FC Argeş will be up against FC Voluntari, while on Monday, Chindia
    Târgovişte takes on FC Mioveni. On Saturday in Bucharest, local side Rapid will
    be up against Farul Constanţa. Also on Sunday, in Craiova, southwestern
    Romania, local side Universitatea plays CFR Cluj. On Monday in Sfântu Gheorghe,
    central Romania, the local football club, Sepsi OSK, is up against FCSB. Farul
    tops the table with 35 points followed by CFR with 33, FCSB, with 30,
    Universitatea Craiova with 28, Rapid with 27, and Sfântu Gheorghe with 21.

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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    Romania’s national fifteen has
    ended in the third place the 2023 edition of the continental competition Rugby
    Europe Championship.


    In the bronze final held in Spain,
    The Oaks outperformed the host country 31 – 25. Marius Simionescu, Cristi
    Chirica, Gabriel Pop and Gabriel Rupanu scored four tries for the Romanian side
    while Paul Popoaia and Vladut Popa have converted a couple of penalty tries. Georgia
    won the competition for the sixth time in a row after a 38-11 win against
    Portugal.




    Last weekend saw the first round
    of the qualifying play-offs for the quarterfinals of the women’s Champions
    League. In Slovenia, local side Krim Ljubljana on Sunday outperformed Rapid
    Bucharest 29 – 24. The best player of the Romanian side was the French Orlane
    Kanor, who scored five times. Eliza Buceschi and Spanish Alicia Fernandez, also
    managed good shows during the match each scoring four goals.


    That was Rapid’s first
    international match with Danish coach Kim Rasmussen at the helm. We recall that
    in 2016 Rasmussen coached CSM Bucharest into winning the Champions League
    trophy. The return game will be played next Sunday. If Rapid beat Krim, they
    will be playing the trophy holder Norwegian side Vipers Kristiansand, in the competition’s quarters.




    Let’s now have a look at the
    latest leg of the Romanian football championship.


    FSCB Bucharest versus Universitatea
    Craiova ended in a one-all draw, while in Ovidiu, on the Romanian Black Sea
    coast, local side Farul secured a 2-1 win against Sepsi Sf. Gheorghe. In Cluj,
    western Romania, CFR versus Rapid Bucharest ended in a two-all draw. Farul tops
    the table with 35 points followed by CFR with 33.


    In other matches on Friday, FC
    Voluntari ended in a one-all draw their match against Hermannstadt, while in
    Ploiesti, southern Romania, local side Petrolul secured a 1-0 win against UTA.
    On Saturday, FC Botosani also clinched a 1-0 win against Chindia Targoviste.




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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    Romania’s national fifteen has
    ended in the third place the 2023 edition of the continental competition Rugby
    Europe Championship.


    In the bronze final held in Spain,
    The Oaks outperformed the host country 31 – 25. Marius Simionescu, Cristi
    Chirica, Gabriel Pop and Gabriel Rupanu scored four tries for the Romanian side
    while Paul Popoaia and Vladut Popa have converted a couple of penalty tries. Georgia
    won the competition for the sixth time in a row after a 38-11 win against
    Portugal.




    Last weekend saw the first round
    of the qualifying play-offs for the quarterfinals of the women’s Champions
    League. In Slovenia, local side Krim Ljubljana on Sunday outperformed Rapid
    Bucharest 29 – 24. The best player of the Romanian side was the French Orlane
    Kanor, who scored five times. Eliza Buceschi and Spanish Alicia Fernandez, also
    managed good shows during the match each scoring four goals.


    That was Rapid’s first
    international match with Danish coach Kim Rasmussen at the helm. We recall that
    in 2016 Rasmussen coached CSM Bucharest into winning the Champions League
    trophy. The return game will be played next Sunday. If Rapid beat Krim, they
    will be playing the trophy holder Norwegian side Vipers Kristiansand, in the competition’s quarters.




    Let’s now have a look at the
    latest leg of the Romanian football championship.


    FSCB Bucharest versus Universitatea
    Craiova ended in a one-all draw, while in Ovidiu, on the Romanian Black Sea
    coast, local side Farul secured a 2-1 win against Sepsi Sf. Gheorghe. In Cluj,
    western Romania, CFR versus Rapid Bucharest ended in a two-all draw. Farul tops
    the table with 35 points followed by CFR with 33.


    In other matches on Friday, FC
    Voluntari ended in a one-all draw their match against Hermannstadt, while in
    Ploiesti, southern Romania, local side Petrolul secured a 1-0 win against UTA.
    On Saturday, FC Botosani also clinched a 1-0 win against Chindia Targoviste.




    (bill)