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  • La Roumanie aux Jeux Olympiques

    La Roumanie aux Jeux Olympiques

    Une fois
    tous les quatre ans, les meilleurs athlètes du monde se réunissent sous la
    bannière olympique et prennent part à la compétition sportive la plus
    importante des temps modernes. En 2020, la pandémie provoquée par le nouveau
    coronavirus a mis entre parenthèses la continuité olympique, les JO de Tokyo ayant
    lieu cette année. De nouvelles règles, imposées par les autorités japonaises à
    des fins de protection sanitaire, régissent l’événement. Ainsi, par exemple,
    toutes les compétitions par discipline sportive ont-elles lieu sans public. Une
    mesure qui a bien évidemment irrité les sponsors, qui voient leurs chiffres d’affaires
    sérieusement impactés, mais ce sont les fans qui en sont les plus affligés, vu
    qu’ils ont attendu cinq ans pour admirer et encourager leurs favoris en quête
    de médailles olympiques. Les épris de sport devront se contenter de suivre les
    compétitions à la télé, à la radio ou bien en ligne, en l’absence de la
    traditionnelle atmosphère de concours olympiques.


    La Roumanie
    a envoyé aux JO de Tokyo 101 sportifs, dont 46 femmes et 55 hommes, présents
    dans 17 disciplines : natation, athlétisme, aviron, football, gymnastique
    artistique, basket-ball féminin à trois, cyclisme, lutte, tir sportif, canoë-kayak,
    tennis de table, boxe, escrime, triathlon, judo, tir à l’arc et tennis. La
    délégation roumaine inclut aussi 40 entraîneurs et d’autres personnes
    officielles. Quelles sont
    les chances des sportifs roumains de gagner des médailles à Tokyo ? Eh
    bien, les performances olympiques roumaines ont constamment baissé depuis un
    certain temps. À Beijing, en 2008, les athlètes roumains avaient remporté 9 médailles
    dont 4 d’or. Quatre ans plus tard, aux JO de Londres, le bilan était de 7
    médailles, dont seulement 2 d’or, alors qu’en 2016, aux Jeux de Rio, la
    délégation roumaine avait réussi un bilan encore plus pauvre, de 4 médailles,
    dont 1 d’or, grâce à l’équipe féminine d’épée.

    Une seule membre de cette équipe
    est aujourd’hui présente à Tokyo, il s’agit
    d’Ana-Maria Popescu, qui, avant le départ pour le Japon, s’est adressée aux
    supporters : « Je suis
    persuadée que chacun d’entre nous s’est rêvé sur le podium olympique et je suis
    sûre que nous ferons tout ce qui dépend de nous pour y arriver. Nous vous
    remercions de votre confiance en nous, de votre soutien, nous remercions le
    Comité olympique et sportif roumain de nous avoir soutenus et d’avoir mis à
    notre disposition les meilleures conditions de préparation. Cette fois-ci, tout
    a été exactement ce qu’il fallait. Mais à part ça, il ne faut pas oublier qu’en
    Roumanie le sport n’est pas uniquement lié aux JO. Nous vous appelons donc à
    rester à nos côtés comme vous l’avez toujours fait, et à soutenir l’avenir du
    sport roumain.     », a dit l’escrimeuse Ana-Maria Popescu.


    Rappelons
    que l’équipe de football de Roumanie a déjà débuté aux JO de Tokyo. Jeudi, à Kashima,
    les tricolores ont vaincu le Honduras sur le score final de 1 but à 0, dans le
    cadre du Groupe B du tournois olympique.



  • România a învins Honduras cu 1-0 la fotbal, la Jocurile Olimpice

    România a învins Honduras cu 1-0 la fotbal, la Jocurile Olimpice

    Echipa de fotbal a României a debutat cu dreptul la Jocurile Olimpice de la Tokyo, învângând cu 1-0 (1-0) Honduras, joi, la Kashima, în Grupa B a turneului olimpic, la 57 de ani de la precedenta participare a fotbalului românesc la Jocurile Olimpice, în 1964, tot la Tokyo.



    România a obţinut o victorie foarte importantă, prin autogolul lui Elvin Oliva (minutul 45), dar a făcut un meci slab, conform specialiştilor. În celălalt meci din grupă, Noua Zeelandă a învins Coreea de Sud cu scorul de 1-0 (0-0).



    Duminică 25 iulie se vor disputa partidele Noua Zeelandă – Honduras (11:00, ora României, la Kashima) şi România – Coreea de Sud (14:00, ora României, tot la Kashima), iar miercuri 28 iulie sunt programate ultimele meciuri din grupă, România – Noua Zeelandă (11:30, ora României, la Sapporo) şi Coreea de Sud – Honduras (11:30, ora României, la Yokohama).



    Primele două clasate se califică în sferturile de finală.

  • 22.07.2021

    22.07.2021

    Covid en Roumanie – 78 nouveaux cas d’infection au SARS CoV 2 ont été rapportés ce jeudi en Roumanie sur quelque 24 mille tests effectués. Les autorités ont également rapporté quatre décès. Le nombre de cas a commencé à augmenter depuis le 12 juillet et conformément aux chiffres du Centre national de surveillance et contrôle des maladies transmissibles, la semaine dernière, près de la moitié des infections ont été enregistrées à Bucarest, Cluj(centre-ouest), Iasi(nord-est), Ilfov(autour de la Capitale) et Constanta (dans le sud-est sur la côte). Conformément aux chiffres de la plateforme de prévisions européenne, les autorités s’attendent à ce que le nombre de nouveaux cas de Covid 19 dépistés chaque jour augmente jusqu’à 200. Les spécialistes affirment que la vaccination est l’unique solution pour sortir de cette pandémie. Les autorités ont annoncé mercredi que plus de 15 mille personnes s’étaient faites immuniser en 24 heures. A président, plus de 4,7 millions de Roumains sont pleinement vaccinés.

    Statistiques – Seul un Roumain sur trois qui se considèrent victimes d’abus de la part des institutions de l’Etat, ont déposé des saisines ou des pétitions afin de défendre leurs droits, selon les chiffres du projet « Sois informé, pas abusé ! », déroulé d’avril à juin par la Fondation de défense des citoyens contre les abus de l’Etat. Selon les réponses à ce questionnaire, quelque 72 % des personnes interviewées affirment avoir été au moins une fois victimes d’abus commis par une institution de l’Etat roumain. Sur ce, seuls 32 % ont déposé des saisines, 12% ont seulement averti oralement les représentants de l’institution en question, 11% ont fait appel à la Justice et 25% des victimes n’ont réagi d’aucune manière. Seuls 9% des Roumains questionnés soulignent ne pas avoir été victimes de tels abus.

    Perquisitions – Les procureurs du parquet antimafia et les agents de la police roumaine aux frontières ont opéré 17 perquisitions à Bucarest et dans cinq autres départements pour démanteler un groupe criminel organisé spécialisé dans des infractions d’escroquerie, fraude informatique et blanchiment d’argent. Quelque 380 personnes ont été auditionnées. Les personnes inculpées avaient ouvert des comptes en banque en Roumanie, Slovaquie, Pologne, République Tchèque, Italie, Royaume Uni, Allemagne etc, et elle est devenue connue sur le marché du blanchiment d’argent d’Europe après avoir géré plus de sept millions d’euros. Durant les perquisitions, les forces de l’ordre ont saisi l’équivalent d’une centaine de milliers d’euros, 250 téléphones portables et des documents bancaires émis dans d’autres Etats de l’UE et de la Fédération de Russie,n mais aussi des ordinateurs portables, des centaines de cartes SIM et de cartes bancaires.

    Coronavirus dans le monde – Les autorités chinoises ont rejeté un plan de l’OMS visant la mise en place de la deuxième phase d’une investigation visant l’origine de la Covid 19. La Commission nationale de Santé a affirmé que la proposition d’analyser la possibilité que le virus soit issu d’un laboratoire chinois ne respectait ni la science, ni le bon sens. Selon l’avertissement le plus récent de l’OMS, le nombre des cas d’infection au SARS Cov 2 au niveau mondial pourrait franchir les 200 millions dans les trois semaines à venir, si le taux de propagation du virus se maintient. La semaine dernière, le nombre des infections au niveau mondial a augmenté de 12%, soit près de demi-million de cas supplémentaires par jour, alors que le nombre des décès a été constant. Toutes les régions du monde à l’exceprtion des deux Amériques et de l’Afrique ont rapporté des hausses du nombre de cas de Covid 19. Selon l’OMS, cette situation est due à la circulation d’un variant plus contagieux du virus, le variant delta. Le bilan mondial de la pandémie fait Etat de près de 193 millions de personnes infectées au nouveau coronavirus et de 4,1 millions de morts des suites de la maladie.

    Météo – Temps généralement beau en Roumanie. Ciel variable, avec quelques nuages durant l’après midi lorsque de pluies sont possibles sur le nord, le nord-est, le centre et sur les Carpates orientales et méridionales. Les températures iront de 24 à 30 degrés. 23 degrés sous un ciel variable à Bucarest.

    JO – Aux Jo de Tokyo, la sélection nationale de foot des moins de 23 ans de la Roumanie rencontre aujourd’hui dans son premier match du tournoi olympique de Tokyo, le Hondouras. Dans le même groupe B la Corée du sud affronte la Nouvelle Zélande, que la Roumanie rencontrera les 25 et respectivement le 28 juillet. Au total 101 sportifs roumains, dont 46 femmes et 55 hommes participent aux Jo de Tokyo, dans le cadre de 17 disciplines olympiques. Toutes les compétitions se déroulent malheureusement sans public à cause de la pandémie de Covid 19.

  • România la Jocurile Olimpice: Campioni români absenţi de la Tokyo

    România la Jocurile Olimpice: Campioni români absenţi de la Tokyo

    România trimite la Jocurile Olimpice de la Tokyo 101 sportivi. Mulţi dintre ei sunt foşti medaliaţi olimpici, campioni mondiali sau europeni, de la care aşteptăm noi performanţe. Din delegaţia română lipsesc însă câteva nume mari din sportul mondial.



    În primul rând, nu face deplasarea în Japonia Simona Halep, cea mai mare jucătoare română a tuturor timpurilor, sportivă care s-a aflat în fruntea clasamentului mondial vreme de 64 de săptămâni. A câştigat două turnee de Mare Şlem, şi anume la Roland Garros, în 2018, şi la Wimbledon, în 2019. S-a impus în 22 de turnee WTA. A participat la Jocurile Olimpice din 2012, de la Londra, unde a pierdut în primul tur. În 2016 nu a luat parte la Jocurile de la Rio din cauza temerilor legate de virusul Zika. Actualmente pe locul 9 în clasamentul WTA, ea a suferit o accidentare în turneul din mai, de la Roma care, de atunci, o ţine departe de teren. Insuficient refăcută, sportiva a ţinut să nu se forţeze şi a anunţat că va reveni în arenă abia în august, probabil la turneul de la Cincinnati.



    Tenisul românesc nu poate conta nici pe Horia Tecău, unul dintre cei mai buni jucători de dublu din lume. El nu are partener pentru a merge în Japonia nici la turneul olimpic de dublu masculin şi nici la cel de dublu mixt. La masculin ar fi trebuit să facă pereche cu Florin Mergea, dar acesta este clasat prea jos în ierarhia mondială, respectiv pe locul 165. La dublu mixt, partenera lui Tecău ar fi fost Simona Halep.



    De la Jocurile Olimpice de la Tokyo va lipsi şi Cristina Neagu, una dintre cele mai mari handbaliste ale lumii. Echipa feminină de handbal a României a ratat accesul la Jocuri după un turneu preolimpic desfăşurat în luna martie, în care a fost depăşită de Naţionalele Norvegiei şi Muntenegrului. Cristina a fost desemnată de Federaţia Internaţională de Handbal cea mai bună jucătoare a lumii în 2010, 2015, 2016 şi 2018. Este prima handbalistă din istorie câștigătoare de patru ori a acestui trofeu. În palmaresul ei cu Naţionala României, al cărei căpitan este din 2016, se află o medalie de bronz la Campionatul European din Danemarca şi Norvegia din 2010 şi un alt bronz la Mondialele din Danemarca din 2015. A participat deja cu echipa la două Olimpiade, şi anume în 2008, la Beijing, şi în 2016, la Rio.



    Loredana Toma, una dintre cele mai bune halterofile ale momentului, va sta, şi ea, acasă. În iunie, Federaţia Internaţională de Haltere a impus o suspendare de un an Federaţiei Române de Haltere din cauza mai multor cazuri de încălcări ale regulamentului antidoping. Sancţiunea a interzis practic participarea halterofililor români la Jocurile Olimpice de la Tokyo. La categoria 64 de kilograme, Loredana se află în fruntea clasamentului mondial, astfel că ar fi avut şanse mari la o medalie.





  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    The Romanian wrestling team that will represent Romania at the Tokyo Olympic Games includes five athletes. Among them is one single fighter who has been a medalist at an Olympics, namely Albert Saritov, who won a bronze medal at the Rio Games, in 2016, in the 97 kg category. He was the first naturalized athlete to win a medal for the Romanian Olympic team. Born in Russia, with Chechen origins, Albert Ramazanovich Saritov is one of the athletes who stands real chances to win an Olympic medal for the delegation of Romanian fighters. Before becoming a Romanian citizen, in April 2016, Saritov achieved a series of performances under the colors of Russia. His biggest achievement was the bronze medal at the World Championships held in 2011, in Istanbul, in the 84 kg category.



    Another athlete who started his international career under a different flag is the canoeist Victor Mihalachi. He was born in the Republic of Moldova on February 24, 1989, in the commune of Floriţoaia Veche and obtained the first international performances, as a junior, for Moldova. In 2007, in Brno, he became world junior champion with Hariton Ivanov, in the 500 meters event. In 2009 he received Romanian citizenship. Since then, he has won four world champion titles and four European champion titles, alongside many other medals in the top races, in the canoe double event, on the distances of 500 and 1,000 meters. He is licensed at Dinamo Bucharest. In Tokyo, he will also compete in the mens canoe double 1,000m together with Cătălin Chirilă. The two will be the only representatives of Romania in kayak-canoe event. For 21 years, the Romanian kayakers and canoeists have not won any Olympic medal. In 2000, Florin Popescu, the current coach of the Olympic canoe team, and Mitică Pricop brought the last gold for Romania, from Sydney, in the mens canoe double 1,000m.



    The newest Romanian citizen and member of the Olympic team is Felix Duchampt, an athlete of French origin. Thanks to him, Romania will be represented for the first time at the Olympic Games in the triathlon competition. Duchampt, who received the Romanian citizenship last year, is a member of the Cluj-Napoca Politehnica Sports Club. At the request of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee, the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee – CIO analyzed and decided last year to grant Duchampt an exemption from Rule 41 of the Olympic Charter, according to which an athlete can represent a country at the Olympic Games after a waiting period of 3 years since the last participation under the colors of another country. The athlete last participated under the colors of France in the triathlon competition within the Miyazaki World Cup stage, on November 10, 2018. Without the exemption obtained from the International Olympic Committee, he could not have been co-opted in the Romanian Olympic team before November 10, 2021. (LS)

  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    The Romanian wrestling team that will represent Romania at the Tokyo Olympic Games includes five athletes. Among them is one single fighter who has been a medalist at an Olympics, namely Albert Saritov, who won a bronze medal at the Rio Games, in 2016, in the 97 kg category. He was the first naturalized athlete to win a medal for the Romanian Olympic team. Born in Russia, with Chechen origins, Albert Ramazanovich Saritov is one of the athletes who stands real chances to win an Olympic medal for the delegation of Romanian fighters. Before becoming a Romanian citizen, in April 2016, Saritov achieved a series of performances under the colors of Russia. His biggest achievement was the bronze medal at the World Championships held in 2011, in Istanbul, in the 84 kg category.



    Another athlete who started his international career under a different flag is the canoeist Victor Mihalachi. He was born in the Republic of Moldova on February 24, 1989, in the commune of Floriţoaia Veche and obtained the first international performances, as a junior, for Moldova. In 2007, in Brno, he became world junior champion with Hariton Ivanov, in the 500 meters event. In 2009 he received Romanian citizenship. Since then, he has won four world champion titles and four European champion titles, alongside many other medals in the top races, in the canoe double event, on the distances of 500 and 1,000 meters. He is licensed at Dinamo Bucharest. In Tokyo, he will also compete in the mens canoe double 1,000m together with Cătălin Chirilă. The two will be the only representatives of Romania in kayak-canoe event. For 21 years, the Romanian kayakers and canoeists have not won any Olympic medal. In 2000, Florin Popescu, the current coach of the Olympic canoe team, and Mitică Pricop brought the last gold for Romania, from Sydney, in the mens canoe double 1,000m.



    The newest Romanian citizen and member of the Olympic team is Felix Duchampt, an athlete of French origin. Thanks to him, Romania will be represented for the first time at the Olympic Games in the triathlon competition. Duchampt, who received the Romanian citizenship last year, is a member of the Cluj-Napoca Politehnica Sports Club. At the request of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee, the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee – CIO analyzed and decided last year to grant Duchampt an exemption from Rule 41 of the Olympic Charter, according to which an athlete can represent a country at the Olympic Games after a waiting period of 3 years since the last participation under the colors of another country. The athlete last participated under the colors of France in the triathlon competition within the Miyazaki World Cup stage, on November 10, 2018. Without the exemption obtained from the International Olympic Committee, he could not have been co-opted in the Romanian Olympic team before November 10, 2021. (LS)

  • July 9, 2021 UPDATE

    July 9, 2021 UPDATE

    Covid -19 ▪ 54 new cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been registered in the past 24 hours, out of more than 24,500 tests, the Strategic Communication Group reported. Also, only one person has died of COVID-19 in the mentioned period. Most of the newly confirmed cases were registered in the counties of Dolj, Iaşi and Satu Mare. In Bucharest, 4 new cases were reported. 311 infected people are still in hospital, of whom 58 in intensive care. At the same time, 21,992 people are in home quarantine and 34 in institutionalized quarantine, and 2,024 are in home isolation while 670 in institutionalized isolation. The Romanian government approved the extension of the state of alert across the country for another 30 days, starting with July 12. On the other hand, the head of the vaccination campaign, Valeriu Gheorghiţă, pointed out that, as of mid-August, the number of COVID-19 cases in Romania might increase, due to the new Delta virus strain. Since the beginning of the vaccination campaign in Romania, in December last year, almost 4.8 million people have been vaccinated, of whom about 4.6 million with both doses.



    Summit ▪ “Romania remains firmly committed to the Three Seas Initiative, through pragmatic action, and it will support concrete solutions to reduce gaps and strengthen resilience in the region,” the Romanian President Klaus Iohannis stated at the organization summit held in Sofia. He attended the summit, which brings together 12 EU member states, located between the Baltic Sea, the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea. President Iohannis spoke about the special attention that Romania attaches to the projects Rail-2-Sea and Via Carpathia, which are concrete initiatives with a major economic importance and with a real strategic value for the region. The Three Seas Initiative’s development at parliamentary, local and regional levels, which adds to the initiative’s intergovernmental dimension, is quite welcome. The final target of all these efforts, however, remains the rigorous implementation of the Initiative’s priority strategic interconnection projects in three basic areas – transport, energy and digitalization, the Romanian president pointed out. The participants adopted a joint statement which reiterates ‘the firm commitment’ to the Three Seas Initiative and hails the progress made at the summits so far. The participants also welcomed ‘the strong and uninterrupted support of the organization’s partners: the United States, Germany and the European Commission.



    Festival ▪ The Sibiu International Theater Festival (FITS), one of the largest festivals in the world and the largest event dedicated to the performing arts in Romania, will present, between August 20-29, over 600 events performed by artists from 37 countries, from all continents. According to the organizers, this is going to be the most complex edition held so far. This years edition of the Sibiu Theater Festival, whose theme is “Building hope together” – will have a threefold dimension: physical, hybrid and online. The event is aimed at building hope together with its audience which will watch a genuine feast of the performing arts, with theater, dance, circus, film, musical and opera productions as well as book launches, conferences, exhibitions, performance, music, and street shows. Israel Galván Company, Charlotte Rampling, Tokyo Metropolitan Theater, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, María Pagés Compańía are some of the world’s great artists and companies that will participate in the 2021 Sibiu International Theater Festival.



    Baccalaureate ▪ The Baccalaureate exam pass rate in Romania, after the resolution of appeals, is almost 70%, the Romanian Education Minister Sorin Câmpeanu announced. He showed that over 50 thousand marks were modified, some even with 3 or 4 points. A number of almost 2,500 students have passed the Baccalaureate after the resolution of appeals. The total number of candidates who passed the exam stands at around 89 thousand, from both the current and previous year.



    Olympics – Postponed by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Olympic Games in Japan will be the first in history to take place largely behind closed doors. The move follows the Japanese governments decision to restore the state of emergency, the 4th since the beginning of the pandemic, in Tokyo until August 22, as the Games begin on July 23 and end on August 8. A little over 15% of Japans population has been fully vaccinated so far, and experts fear that the Delta variant might bring about another wave that could overwhelm Japanese hospitals. The Olympic flame arrived in Tokyo on Friday for a ceremony held on an empty stadium. It was carried in a lantern and symbolically handed over to Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike. (LS)

  • JUNE 30, 2021 UPDATE

    JUNE 30, 2021 UPDATE

    COMMEMORATION Romania’s Parliament convened in a solemn session on Wednesday to
    commemorate the victims of the Pogrom in Iasi, north-eastern Romania, 80 years
    ago. At that time over 13 thousand Jews were tortured and killed by the pro-Nazi
    regime led by Ion Antonescu. Speaking in the opening of the event, the
    president of the Romanian Senate Anca Dragu said, quote: ‘This is a moment of
    introspection and reflection, a moment when we directly assume this tragic
    event in the history of our country but at the same time, a moment when we become aware of the historical consequences of xenophobic and racist attitudes’. In
    turn, Romania’s Prime Minister Florin Citu has described the Iasi pogrom as a ‘dark
    page’ in Romania’s history and underlined the idea of assuming the
    past. Also attending the Parliament session, Musi-Mihail Cernea, one of the
    survivors, recollected the horrific moments 80 years ago. President Klaus Iohannis Wednesday awarded
    the Faithful Service National Order, in the rank of Knight, to Musi-Mihail
    Cernea, Jehuda Evron and Moshe Yassur, survivors of the Iaşi Pogrom of June
    1941. The 3 were decorated as a show of respect for the suffering experience
    during WW2, for their high moral standards throughout their lives and their
    efforts to preserve the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, a tragedy that
    must never repeat, reads a news release issued by the Presidential Administration.








    FOOTBALL Romania’s Football Federation has announced the line-up of the
    Under-23 side to represent the country at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Romania
    has been included in group B and will be up against Honduras on July 22nd,
    South Korea three days later, and New Zealand on July 28th. Romania
    has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics after having played in the semi-finals of
    the European Under-21 Championship held in Italy and San Marino in 2019.






    TRANSMITTER Radiocom, the company
    broadcasting Radio Romania International’s programmes, has announced a new series
    of repair works carried out on a transmitter in Tiganesti, close to Bucharest. The
    company is stepping up efforts to mend the transmitter and render it operational
    by August this year. Unfortunately, the defective transmitter is presently affecting
    the RRI English transmissions beamed to New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo
    and Australia, the transmissions in French to Montreal and Central Africa, in
    Russian to Moscow and Novosibirsk, in German to Berlin, in Spanish to Mexico,
    Madrid, Buenos Aires and Brazil and in Chinese to Beijing.








    CERTIFICATE A web page where Romanian and foreign citizens can obtain digital
    COVID-19 certificates is to become available starting July 1st, the
    Special Telecommunication Service (STS) has announced. The user-friendly application,
    which is called certificate-covid.gov.ro, allows people to get the certificate
    in less than 10 steps. According to the institution, its experts who developed
    the entire information system, have made the latest optimizations in accordance
    with the provisions of the ordinance endorsed by the government in Bucharest.
    The Covid certificate, which allows for the free movement inside the EU has a
    one-year validity for those who got the vaccine, and only a couple of hours for
    those who took rapid or PCR tests. 52 new infections have been reported in the
    past 24 hours in Romania after 26 thousand tests have been carried out. 33,786
    people have been killed by the virus in Romania since the beginning of the
    pandemic.






    (bill)





  • 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)

  • A busy weekend in Bucharest

    A busy weekend in Bucharest


    Like the entire Europe, Romania has been gradually making
    its way out of the pandemic nightmare. Against a shrinking infection rate and
    the immunization of a significant part of the population, people here have
    started to re-learn their way back to normality.




    In spite of the heavy downpours at times, the past
    weekend was unusually animated and quite busy in Bucharest. The 17th
    edition of the Museums Night took place all over Romania on Saturday, when
    people had the opportunity of visiting roughly 200 museums, 50 of which in the
    capital city Bucharest alone.




    As a first the city hall was also opened
    to the public and its historical premises, built between 1906 and 1910, were being
    visited by hundreds of people. Visitors were taken on 30 minute tours, which
    included two exhibitions, Uranus now about a lovely district demolished by
    communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and another one devoted to architect Petre
    Antonescu, the one who designed several iconic buildings in Bucharest.




    Managers of the aforementioned cultural
    institutes have described the unexpectedly higher visitor turnout as
    ‘encouraging’, and a ‘real step back to normality’, which people had been
    eagerly looking forward to.




    On Sunday, Bucharest became the capital of
    football fans, as the largest stadium in Romania, known as the National Arena
    hosted, for the first time in its history a match counting towards the European
    Football Championship, which was supposed to take place last year but was
    postponed because of the pandemic. Austria clinched a 3-1 win against North
    Macedonia in group C, while in Amsterdam, the Netherlands obtained a 3-2 win
    against Ukraine.


    Exuberant but disciplined, the fans of the
    two sides met over a pint of beer in Bucharest’s famous and picturesque old
    town district both before and after the game.






    On Thursday, June 17th the same
    National Arena will be hosting Ukraine versus North Macedonia while on Monday,
    June 21st Ukraine takes on Austria. Bucharest is to also host a
    match in the round of 16 on June 28th, involving the participation
    of the winner of group F, which has been dubbed the tournament’s Group of Death
    as world powerhouses Portugal, Germany and France will be vying for two
    automatic berths into the knockout rounds.




    The Romanian football fans are mere spectators as
    their favourites, after a lackluster participation in the qualifiers, didn’t
    manage to qualify for the prestigious football competition. There is only one
    thing to sweeten the pill for Romania’s football fans, the qualification of our
    Under-23 side for the Tokyo Olympics where our footballers will up against New
    Zealand, South Korea and Honduras.




    The Olympic Football tournament kicks off
    on July 21st. We recall that our young footballers made it for the
    semifinals of the European Under-21 Championship hosted by Italy and San Marino
    in 2019. This would be their fourth
    participation in the Olympics after the editions of 1924 in Paris, 1952 in
    Helsinki and 1964 in Tokyo when they ended on the fifth position.


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  • Sports roundup

    Sports roundup

    The tennis tournament in Roland Garros has ended with two winners:
    Serbian Novak Djokovic in the men’s competition, and Barbora Krejicikova of the
    Czech Republic in the women’s contest. The best Romanian participation in the
    aforementioned top sporting event was that of Irina Begu, who together with
    Argentinean Nadia Podoroska made it to the semifinals of the women’s doubles.
    Their performance has been rewarded with 84,749 Euros and 780 WTA points. The
    Roland Garros tournament has been Begu’s second Grand Slam semifinals after
    Australian Open in 2018, when she played together with her compatriot Monica
    Niculescu.






    Shot putter Rareş Andrei
    Toader has broken a Romanian record in this event after winning the
    international contest hosted by the Czech town of Brno with a shot of 21 meters
    and 29 centimeters. The performance in Brno has brought Toader the most-coveted
    tickets for Tokyo Olympics. The Romanian managed to equal the former national
    record last week but that wasn’t enough to qualify for the upcoming Olympic
    Games. After the competition in the Czech Republic, Toader has become Romania’s
    seventh athlete qualified for Tokyo.






    In the first game of the European Football Championship in Bucharest on
    Sunday, Austria secured a 3-1 win against North Macedonia. The match was
    watched by 9 thousand football fans as the stadium had only 13 thousand seats
    available in accordance with the anti-Covid measures. Stefan Lainer, Michael
    Gregoritsch and Marko Arnautovic scored for Austria and Goran Pandev for
    Macedonia. Also in group C, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands secured a 3-2 win
    against Ukraine. In the competition’s second leg, North Macedonia takes on
    Ukraine in Bucharest on June 17th and the Dutch side will be playing
    Austria in Amsterdam.




    Oradea, a city in western Romania, on Tuesday hosts the National
    Handball League’s finals. Local side CSM will be playing U-BT Cluj Napoca. The
    latter has a 2-0 advance on aggregate after the first matches on its own turf.
    The best side out of five games will be winner of the competition.


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  • Sports roundup

    Sports roundup

    The tennis tournament in Roland Garros has ended with two winners:
    Serbian Novak Djokovic in the men’s competition, and Barbora Krejicikova of the
    Czech Republic in the women’s contest. The best Romanian participation in the
    aforementioned top sporting event was that of Irina Begu, who together with
    Argentinean Nadia Podoroska made it to the semifinals of the women’s doubles.
    Their performance has been rewarded with 84,749 Euros and 780 WTA points. The
    Roland Garros tournament has been Begu’s second Grand Slam semifinals after
    Australian Open in 2018, when she played together with her compatriot Monica
    Niculescu.






    Shot putter Rareş Andrei
    Toader has broken a Romanian record in this event after winning the
    international contest hosted by the Czech town of Brno with a shot of 21 meters
    and 29 centimeters. The performance in Brno has brought Toader the most-coveted
    tickets for Tokyo Olympics. The Romanian managed to equal the former national
    record last week but that wasn’t enough to qualify for the upcoming Olympic
    Games. After the competition in the Czech Republic, Toader has become Romania’s
    seventh athlete qualified for Tokyo.






    In the first game of the European Football Championship in Bucharest on
    Sunday, Austria secured a 3-1 win against North Macedonia. The match was
    watched by 9 thousand football fans as the stadium had only 13 thousand seats
    available in accordance with the anti-Covid measures. Stefan Lainer, Michael
    Gregoritsch and Marko Arnautovic scored for Austria and Goran Pandev for
    Macedonia. Also in group C, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands secured a 3-2 win
    against Ukraine. In the competition’s second leg, North Macedonia takes on
    Ukraine in Bucharest on June 17th and the Dutch side will be playing
    Austria in Amsterdam.




    Oradea, a city in western Romania, on Tuesday hosts the National
    Handball League’s finals. Local side CSM will be playing U-BT Cluj Napoca. The
    latter has a 2-0 advance on aggregate after the first matches on its own turf.
    The best side out of five games will be winner of the competition.


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  • Athlete of the Week

    Athlete of the Week

    According to Agerpres News Agency, at the European Race
    Walking championships hosted by Podebrady in the Czech Republic, Romanian
    athlete Marius Iulian Cocioran managed a 12th position in the 50 km race
    and has thus booked plane tickets to Tokyo Olympics. The Romanian set a new
    national record of 3 hours 55 minutes and 29 seconds. For his performance in
    Podebrady, Radio Romania International has designated Cocioran Athlete of the
    week




    Pavel Remus Radoi was
    the second best Romanian athlete to attend the aforementioned race where he
    came in 27th in 4 hours, 13 minutes and 35 seconds setting a
    personal record. Ionut Vasilica Plesu has also registered a personal record in
    Podebrady after coming 30th in four hours, 26 minutes and 58
    seconds. Another Romanian representative, Narcis Mihaila didn’t manage to end
    the race.




    Romania came in 6th in the teams’ contest. In the
    women’s contest, Ana Veronica Rodean came in 13th setting a national
    record of 2 hours, 59 minutes and 27 seconds. In the 20 kilometer race walking
    Mihaela Acatrinei came in 39th while Maria Diana Lataretu abandoned
    the 10 kilometer race.




    Marius Cocioran was born in Reşiţa, central Romania on 10th
    July 1983. He has already participated in two editions of the Olympic Games. He
    came 36th in the 50 kilometer race walking in London in 2012 and
    abandoned the race four years later in Rio. He is the sixth Romanian athlete to
    have qualified for Tokyo after long jumpers Florentina Iuşco and Alina Rotaru, Claudia
    Bobocea in the 1.500-meter dash, Daniela Stanciu, in the high jump event and
    discus thrower Alin Firfirică. Romania now boasts 85 athletes qualified for the
    Olympic Games this year.


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  • Athlete of the Week

    Athlete of the Week

    According to Agerpres News Agency, at the European Race Walking championships hosted by Podebrady in the Czech Republic, Romanian athlete Marius Iulian Cocioran managed a 12th position in the 50 km race and has thus booked plane tickets to Tokyo Olympics. The Romanian set a new national record of 3 hours 55 minutes and 29 seconds. For his performance in Podebrady, Radio Romania International has designated Cocioran Athlete of the week



    Pavel Remus Radoi was the second best Romanian athlete to attend the aforementioned race where he came in 27th in 4 hours, 13 minutes and 35 seconds setting a personal record. Ionut Vasilica Plesu has also registered a personal record in Podebrady after coming 30th in four hours, 26 minutes and 58 seconds. Another Romanian representative, Narcis Mihaila didnt manage to end the race.



    Romania came in 6th in the teams contest. In the womens contest, Ana Veronica Rodean came in 13th setting a national record of 2 hours, 59 minutes and 27 seconds. In the 20 kilometer race walking Mihaela Acatrinei came in 39th while Maria Diana Lataretu abandoned the 10 kilometer race.



    Marius Cocioran was born in Reşiţa, central Romania on 10th July 1983. He has already participated in two editions of the Olympic Games. He came 36th in the 50 kilometer race walking in London in 2012 and abandoned the race four years later in Rio. He is the sixth Romanian athlete to have qualified for Tokyo after long jumpers Florentina Iuşco and Alina Rotaru, Claudia Bobocea in the 1.500-meter dash, Daniela Stanciu, in the high jump event and discus thrower Alin Firfirică. Romania now boasts 85 athletes qualified for the Olympic Games this year.


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