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  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    Continental sporting events are to begin every year this month and the European Gymnastics Championships have already started in Antalya, Turkey. On Tuesday, Romanias men team ranked 11th in the nations ranking and qualified for the World Championships due in Anvers Belgium this autumn.


    Our gymnasts needed a place among the first 13 teams to qualify for the world event, which is also to decide the sides to participate in the 2024 Olympics. Gabriel Burtănete has qualified for the finals of the all round event on the 17th position. Hell also attend the vault finals, where he qualified with the fourth result in the competition. The other Romanian who obtained the qualification for finals is Andrei Muntean, who obtained the sixth result in the bars event.


    The European Weightlifting Championships are to begin in Yerevan, Armenia on Saturday. Of the Romanian delegation, the multiple world and continental champion, Loredana Toma stands most chances to win a medal in Yerevan. She will be competing in the 71 kilogram category, where she won the gold medal in the total and jerk events of the World Championships in Bogota, last year. Moreover, in the snatch event, the Romanian lifted 119 kilograms, which proved to be the categorys world record at that time.


    On Friday, 14th April after their arrival in Armenia, Loredana Toma is expected to be awarded by the European forum for being Europes best weightlifter in 2022.


    Zagreb in Croatia, next week will be hosting the European Wrestling Championships. At the latest edition in Budapest, Hungary, Romania obtained four medals, including gold in the 55 kilogram category by Andreea Ana. In the mens contest, Nicu Ojog became silver medalist in the Greek-Roman style of the 87 kilogram category. Two other women from Romania, Alina Vuc and Kriszta Incze stepped onto the podiums third steps of the aforementioned competition.


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  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    Continental sporting events are to begin every year this month and the European Gymnastics Championships have already started in Antalya, Turkey. On Tuesday, Romanias men team ranked 11th in the nations ranking and qualified for the World Championships due in Anvers Belgium this autumn.


    Our gymnasts needed a place among the first 13 teams to qualify for the world event, which is also to decide the sides to participate in the 2024 Olympics. Gabriel Burtănete has qualified for the finals of the all round event on the 17th position. Hell also attend the vault finals, where he qualified with the fourth result in the competition. The other Romanian who obtained the qualification for finals is Andrei Muntean, who obtained the sixth result in the bars event.


    The European Weightlifting Championships are to begin in Yerevan, Armenia on Saturday. Of the Romanian delegation, the multiple world and continental champion, Loredana Toma stands most chances to win a medal in Yerevan. She will be competing in the 71 kilogram category, where she won the gold medal in the total and jerk events of the World Championships in Bogota, last year. Moreover, in the snatch event, the Romanian lifted 119 kilograms, which proved to be the categorys world record at that time.


    On Friday, 14th April after their arrival in Armenia, Loredana Toma is expected to be awarded by the European forum for being Europes best weightlifter in 2022.


    Zagreb in Croatia, next week will be hosting the European Wrestling Championships. At the latest edition in Budapest, Hungary, Romania obtained four medals, including gold in the 55 kilogram category by Andreea Ana. In the mens contest, Nicu Ojog became silver medalist in the Greek-Roman style of the 87 kilogram category. Two other women from Romania, Alina Vuc and Kriszta Incze stepped onto the podiums third steps of the aforementioned competition.


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  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    Romania’s football champions, CFR Cluj, Tuesday played their first match in the Champions League qualifier stage. The team coached by Dan Petrescu played away from home against the Armenian champions, FC Pyunik Yerevan. The match ended in a blank draw.



    The Cluj side had the game under control and missed a lot of opportunities to score, especially in the first half. But they came closest to scoring in the second half of the game, on 73 min, when the Croatian player Gabriel Debeljuh sent the ball straight into the crossbar of the Armenians’ goal.



    In fact, the Croatian footballer was the most dangerous striker of CFR, working well with the other member of his team’s attack flank, Ciprian Deac. The Romanian team were clearly in advantage, with 16-5 shots and 5-1 shots on goal. Moreover, CFR had as many as 11 corner kicks, as against 5 for Pyunik, however none of them managed to threaten the Armenian goal.



    The return leg of the match between CFR Cluj and FC Pyunik Yerevan is scheduled for next Wednesday in Cluj-Napoca. If they win, CFR will move up into the second preliminary round of the Champions League, and will play against the winner of the match between Dudelange Luxembourg and KF Tirana of Albania.



    CFR have bitter memories when it comes to Dudelange, against which they played in the 2018 – 2019 Europa League qualifiers and which beat them twice, 2-0 in Luxembourg and 3-2 in Cluj.



    Until the second leg of the match against FC Pyunik Yerevan, CFR are scheduled to go to Arad, to play for Romania’s football Super Cup against Cup winners Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe. The latter side plays this final for the first time in history, while CFR have 4 such trophies already, won in 2009, 2010, 2018 and 2020. The team also lost 4 other finals. (AMP)


  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    Romania’s football champions, CFR Cluj, Tuesday played their first match in the Champions League qualifier stage. The team coached by Dan Petrescu played away from home against the Armenian champions, FC Pyunik Yerevan. The match ended in a blank draw.



    The Cluj side had the game under control and missed a lot of opportunities to score, especially in the first half. But they came closest to scoring in the second half of the game, on 73 min, when the Croatian player Gabriel Debeljuh sent the ball straight into the crossbar of the Armenians’ goal.



    In fact, the Croatian footballer was the most dangerous striker of CFR, working well with the other member of his team’s attack flank, Ciprian Deac. The Romanian team were clearly in advantage, with 16-5 shots and 5-1 shots on goal. Moreover, CFR had as many as 11 corner kicks, as against 5 for Pyunik, however none of them managed to threaten the Armenian goal.



    The return leg of the match between CFR Cluj and FC Pyunik Yerevan is scheduled for next Wednesday in Cluj-Napoca. If they win, CFR will move up into the second preliminary round of the Champions League, and will play against the winner of the match between Dudelange Luxembourg and KF Tirana of Albania.



    CFR have bitter memories when it comes to Dudelange, against which they played in the 2018 – 2019 Europa League qualifiers and which beat them twice, 2-0 in Luxembourg and 3-2 in Cluj.



    Until the second leg of the match against FC Pyunik Yerevan, CFR are scheduled to go to Arad, to play for Romania’s football Super Cup against Cup winners Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe. The latter side plays this final for the first time in history, while CFR have 4 such trophies already, won in 2009, 2010, 2018 and 2020. The team also lost 4 other finals. (AMP)


  • March 29, 2021

    March 29, 2021

    PROTESTS A new batch of Pfizer/BioNTech has today arrived in Romania, where the
    national vaccination rollout programme is in full swing. 2 million people have
    so far got the vaccine and half of them the booster dose. Out of the 21 thousand
    tests carried out in the past 24 hours, over 4 thousand were positive,
    authorities announced on Sunday. Another 117 fatalities were also reported on
    Sunday when new restrictions aimed at keeping the pandemic at bay came into
    effect. Under these new restrictions, in regions with an infection rate above 4
    per thousand, have been imposed a night curfew over the weekend, applying from
    20 hours, two hours earlier than in the rest of the week. Shops must close at
    18 hours at weekend and in regions with an infection rate above 7.5 per
    thousand the curfew is applicable the entire week. The newly adopted measures
    have sparked off protests in Romania’s big cities, where thousands took to the
    streets chanting anti-government slogans.






    MOTION A simple motion against Romanian Agriculture Minister
    Adrian Oros is due to be debated upon today in the Chamber of Deputies in
    Bucharest. The opposition PSD, who tabled it, is blaming the minister for
    having failed to take the right measures to offer compensations to the farmers
    affected by the drought, and that the fuel excise has not been paid for. This
    is the worst period for the Romanian agriculture heavily affected by the
    drought and the pandemic and also by the minister’s incompetence, the Social
    Democrats said. After debates the document is to be voted upon on Wednesday.
    This is the third simple motion tabled by the opposition PSD in the present
    Parliament season. The other two, tabled against the ministers of Health and
    Economy have not been endorsed by the Legislature.






    TALKS Trade union representatives and leaders of Metrorex, the
    company, which operates the Bucharest underground, are to resume talks today after the
    unofficial protest, which blocked the underground all day long on Friday. High
    on the agenda is a proposal by the company’s board to cut the 18% pay rise by
    the end of the year in order to fit into the present budget. Another issue on
    the agenda is that of the shopping areas on Metrorex premises, as the company
    running them, which belongs to the trade union, had to evacuate these places until
    April 2nd. According to Transport Minister Catalin Drula, the Friday’s
    protest failed to comply with the regulations presently in force aimed at
    preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus, forcing citizens to resort to
    overcrowded public transportation vehicles, putting their health at risk in a time
    when the infection rate is high. The Minister has also filed a criminal
    complaint against the protesters accusing them for undermining the government’s
    efforts to fight the pandemic, abuse of office and for jeopardizing the
    travelers’ health. In turn trade union leaders say the unofficial protest on
    Friday was sparked off by the board’s intention to apply pay cuts; they also
    blaming the board for its lack of interest in a constructive dialogue.






    FOOTBALL Romania’s national football side lost to Germany 1-0 in
    Bucharest on Sunday in a match counting towards the Group J of the World Cup
    2022 preliminaries. On Thursday our footballers clinched a 3-2 win against
    North Macedonia in Bucharest and will be up against Armenia in Yerevan.
    Romania’s group also includes Iceland and Lichtenstein. The first sides in the
    groups are qualified for the final tournaments, whereas runner-ups will be
    playing tie games. Romania last participated in a World Cup in France in 1998.
    On Saturday night Romania’s under-21 representative secured a 2-1 win against
    Hungary in Budapest in Group A of the European Under-21 Championship 2021. They
    also secured a one-all draw against the Dutch representative on Wednesday.
    Romania is to play Germany in a decisive match on March 30th. The
    competition’s group stage is taking place over March 24th and 31st
    and the first two sides of each group will be playing in the Final 8 tournament
    due in Slovenia and Hungary over May 31st and June 6th.




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