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Sports Roundup

Today’s sports programme begins
with good news from ice hockey as Romanian side ACSH Gheorgheni has secured a
first by winning the regional competition Erste League. The Romanians secured a
4-3 aggregate win against the Hungarian side Ferencvaros Budapesta. ACSH won the
decisive home game 2-1 on Friday. Hungarian player Peter Vincze put the hosts
on the lead, then British Oliver Betteridge leveled the scoring for the
visitors. Finnish player Matias Petteri Haaranen, who has enjoyed Romanian
citizenship since last summer eventually sealed the points. This has been the
fifth title won by a Romanian side after Hockey Club Csíkszereda, in 2009, and Sport
Club Miercurea Ciuc, în 2011, 2021 and 2022. Miercurea Ciuc has lost three
finals and Corona Braşov two.

Romanian tennis player Sorana
Cîrstea has jumped up 33 places in the world ranking after the excellent show
she put in Miami. In the aforementioned WTA 1000 tournament with 8.8 million
dollars in prize money, Cîrstea made it to the semifinals, where she was
outperformed by the Czech Petra Kvitova 7-5, 6-4. Cîrstea won the first set 5-2
then she lost five games in a row. In the second round the difference was made
by a break, Kvitova won in the first game. The Romanian won a check of more
than 352 thousand dollars and 390 WTA points, which placed her on the 41st
position in the women’s professional ranking. Kvitova eventually won the Miami tournament
finals after a 7-6, 6-2 against Elena Rybakina of Kazahstan.

Romanian gymnast Gabriela Vănoagă became silver medalist in the beam finals of
the Artistic Gymnastics Junior World Championships in Antalya, Turkey. Hanyue
Yu of China won gold and Cristella Brunetti-Burns of Canada got bronze. This
has been the only medals athletes from Romania won in Antalya.

In the Romanian Football
Superleague Farul Constanţa tops the table two points ahead of runner up CFR
Cluj. In the second leg on Saturday, Farul ended in a one-all draw their match
against Rapid Bucharest. With the same score ended the game which on Sunday pitched
Universitatea against CFR Cluj.

On Friday Petrolul Ploieşti clinched
a 1-0 away win against FC U Craiova while on Saturday, UTA obtained a 2-0 home
win against Universitatea Cluj. In Sibiu, local side Hermannstadt and FC Botoşani
ended their game one-all. On Sunday, FC Voluntari clinched a 2-0 in their game
against FC Argeş in Piteşti.

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3 April 2023
Sports Roundup

Today’s sports programme begins
with good news from ice hockey as Romanian side ACSH Gheorgheni has secured a
first by winning the regional competition Erste League. The Romanians secured a
4-3 aggregate win against the Hungarian side Ferencvaros Budapesta. ACSH won the
decisive home game 2-1 on Friday. Hungarian player Peter Vincze put the hosts
on the lead, then British Oliver Betteridge leveled the scoring for the
visitors. Finnish player Matias Petteri Haaranen, who has enjoyed Romanian
citizenship since last summer eventually sealed the points. This has been the
fifth title won by a Romanian side after Hockey Club Csíkszereda, in 2009, and Sport
Club Miercurea Ciuc, în 2011, 2021 and 2022. Miercurea Ciuc has lost three
finals and Corona Braşov two.

Romanian tennis player Sorana
Cîrstea has jumped up 33 places in the world ranking after the excellent show
she put in Miami. In the aforementioned WTA 1000 tournament with 8.8 million
dollars in prize money, Cîrstea made it to the semifinals, where she was
outperformed by the Czech Petra Kvitova 7-5, 6-4. Cîrstea won the first set 5-2
then she lost five games in a row. In the second round the difference was made
by a break, Kvitova won in the first game. The Romanian won a check of more
than 352 thousand dollars and 390 WTA points, which placed her on the 41st
position in the women’s professional ranking. Kvitova eventually won the Miami tournament
finals after a 7-6, 6-2 against Elena Rybakina of Kazahstan.

Romanian gymnast Gabriela Vănoagă became silver medalist in the beam finals of
the Artistic Gymnastics Junior World Championships in Antalya, Turkey. Hanyue
Yu of China won gold and Cristella Brunetti-Burns of Canada got bronze. This
has been the only medals athletes from Romania won in Antalya.

In the Romanian Football
Superleague Farul Constanţa tops the table two points ahead of runner up CFR
Cluj. In the second leg on Saturday, Farul ended in a one-all draw their match
against Rapid Bucharest. With the same score ended the game which on Sunday pitched
Universitatea against CFR Cluj.

On Friday Petrolul Ploieşti clinched
a 1-0 away win against FC U Craiova while on Saturday, UTA obtained a 2-0 home
win against Universitatea Cluj. In Sibiu, local side Hermannstadt and FC Botoşani
ended their game one-all. On Sunday, FC Voluntari clinched a 2-0 in their game
against FC Argeş in Piteşti.

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3 April 2023
July 6, 2022 UPDATE

DROUGHT 70% of Romania’s territory has
been affected by drought, Environment Minister Tanczos Barna has announced. He
made an appeal to the population to properly use drinkable water and refrain
from using it to water gardens. Barna has also said the country’s 40 strategic
reservoires are filled 68%, which means they have the necessary amount of
water. And although the Danube has a lower level at its entry into Romania it
doesn’t affect the nuclear power plant in Cernavoda, southern Romania.

TENNIS
Romanian Simona Halep has
qualified for the semifinals of the Grand Slam tournament in Wimbledon. On
Wednesday she secured a two-set win 6-2, 6-4 against the US challenger Amanda Anisimova
and will be next playing Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan. A former world number
one, Halep won the 2019 edition of the Wimbledon tournament and a year earlier
the one in Roland Garros.

COMMEMORATION The 73rd anniversary of the biggest wave of
Stalinist deportations was commemorated on Wednesday in the Republic of Moldova
(ex-Soviet, mostly Romanian-speaking). On the night of July 5-6, 1949, the
Soviet communist regime deported tens of thousands of peasant families,
including women, children, and the elderly. Their fortunes were seized by the
Bolshevik regime. The so-called Operation South was the culmination of mass
terror in Bessarabia and affected about 40,000 people. Last month marked the 81st anniversary of the
first wave of Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, when
25,000 people were taken to Siberia and Kazakhstan. Less than a year after the
annexation, following an ultimatum, the repressive bodies displaced, from the
night of June 12 to 13 and until June 22, 1941, tens of thousands of
Bessarabians, most of them ethnic Romanians. The wealthiest people, as well as
those who were perceived as a threat to the USSR, were taken to the most remote
regions of the former Soviet Union. According to historians, the deportations
were aimed at destroying the local elites, so that, later, the occupants would
have those left at home accept the collectivization and expropriation of goods.

SPORTS Romanian swimmer David Popovici on Wednesday won his second gold
medal, in the finals of the 200 meter freestyle race of the European Junior
Swimming Championships underway in Otopeni, southern Romania. In the
competition’s first day on Tuesday, the Romanian team won the first gold in the
4×100 meter relay event after an exciting race against Great Britain. The
competition in Otopeni, close to the capital city Bucharest has brought
together 500 athletes from 42 countries and Romania is being represented by 26
swimmers. We recall that David Popovici, 17, is the new double world champion
in the 100 and 200 meter freestyle races.

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6 July 2022