[The Medal Factory - episode 16 (c) DigiSport]
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Dana Andrei: “I will never regret doing gymnastics”
Raluca Haidu was born in Petrosani on the 20th of November, 1994. Her dad took her to do gymnastics at the “Cetate Deva” Sports Club. She is now one of the members of the Romanian National team.
Raluca Haidu: I started gymnastics [...]
[The Medal Factory - episode 15 (c) DigiSport]
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Cristi Moldovan:“As a gymnast, the power is in your hands. As a coach, when you get to the competition your work is over. Only the gymnast can show what she has learned in training. As a coach I can only support her. “
In only a few weeks, the [...]
From Republicahd.ro
At the foot of Deva City´s Hill you can find the gym that would send so many generation of champions to world podiums. In the last decades, the greatest gymnasts in the world only left this gym to conquer gold, silver or bronze. To honor them, an ensemble of gymnastics dedicated sculptures was built, [...]
[The Medal Factory Episode 14 - part 1 & part 2 - (c)DigiSport]
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Catalina Ponor: “We are a stronger team every day and I hope it can go back to where it was before, up there on the podium hearing the anthem. This is what we want and this is what we work for.”
Octavian Bellu: “I [...]
[The Medal Factory - episode 13 (c) DigiSport]
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Ana Porgras, a Romanian gymnast with exceptional results and one of the most important members of the national team, is training for the most important competition, the Olympic Games. Until then, of course, there are the Tokyo World Championships; we will let Ana tell us more about [...]
[The Medal Factory - episode 12 (c) Digisport]
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A new Romanian gymnastics star was born on October 23, 1985. Sabina Cojocar was born in Sibiu, the town where she had her first encounter with the sport. She was barely 4 years old when her parents decided to take her to the gym.
“I didn’t choose gymnastics, my [...]
From Jurnalul National
After a two year break, the ex great gymnast Ecaterina Szabo returned to Romania, to visit her natal village Zagon, in Covasna. “I´m just visiting with the kids” she says, although deep down she hopes one day she will return to stay in the house where she was born on the 22nd of [...]
From TVR:
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Catalina Ponor and Sandra Izbasa can become Romania’s oldest World and Olympic Champions if they manage to surprise in Tokyo and London. Catalina, who will be 24 in 2 weeks, has a different perspective in gymnastics: “I now understand things both from a coach’s point of view and from a gymnast’s. I will try [...]
From TVR:
Some highlights:
Sandra Izbasa - full twisting double back, as an UB dismount;
Catalina Ponor - whip+whip+full twisting double piked, on floor;
Ana Porgras - double layout, on floor;
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Gold is the goal for a duo that already knows what success is: Ponor and Izbasa are ready to fight for it. Mariana Bitang and Octavian Bellu are rebuilding [...]
From Prosport:
With a subscription to the second place of the podium on floor (silver at the 2010 WC, silver at the 2011 EC), Diana Chelaru would like to make a change at the 2012 London Olympics. Despite tough competition inside her own team represented by Olympic Champion on floor, Sandra Izbasa, the Onesti gymnast is [...]
