Sandra Izbasa is working on a new vault. Actually she upgraded her layout Podkopayeva to a round off flic-flac with 1/2 turn on - stretched salto forward with 1/1 turn (6.1 difficulty score). With this vault and with her double twisting Yurchenko, she has a real shot to keep the European title she won last [...]
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Andreea Raducan: Diana, you´ve just come back from the American Cup but you are down with the flu now. Are you happy with your performance there?
Diana Chelaru: I´m not very happy, I didn´t do my routines the way I would have wanted to. I hesitated while I was hoping to do better. But these things [...]
From CovasnaMedia:
Catalina Ponor, the 2004 Athens Olympic Champion, gives us a lesson of will and strength in everything she does. At an age when many gymnasts are giving up the sport, Catalina, 24, decided to come out of retirement and reconfirm her position in elite gymnastics.
After a 4 year break, a coaching experience in the [...]
Sandra had to go through 2 other surgeries last year but says she will go till the end and get to her second Olympics.
She has experienced all possible emotions from the joy of the Olympic, World and European medals to the disappointment of failures and injuries but she is still anxious for the London [...]
An interview with Ana Porgras about her retirement, via Prosport:
Prosport: Ana, how are you?
Ana: I’m fine, at home with my sister.
Prosport: With or without gymnastics?
Ana: Without. I retired from gymnastics.
Prosport: Why did you make this decision?
Ana: I had my reasons and I would like not to speak about them. But I reached one point where [...]
From GSP:
There´s snow and sun. And there has been snow and sun since Tuesday at the National Sports Complex in Piatra Arsa, in the Bucegi mountains. “Only the rainbow is missing!” says one of the employees.
- Where do the snow flakes come from when the sky is blue?
- I think the window blowing [...]
From Adevarul:
Catalina Ponor is the Romanian gymnastics team’s star. After her 2007 retirement, she returned to the gym after a 4 year break and made the Tokyo World team.
„Adevarul”: How did you get to practice gymnastics?
Catalina Ponor: It was because of my grandmother, when I was 4. Probably God gave me this gift because every [...]
From Wall-Street:
The Athens three time gold medalist, Catalina Ponor is one of the Romanian gymnastics team´s stars. She returned to elite competition this year after having become a coach. Now her new goal is to place as high as possible at next year´s London Olympics. In an interview for Wall-Street.ro, Catalina Ponor discussed the price [...]
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Catalina Ponor: “I’m not thinking about the 4 year gap in training, what I need to do is to be consistent and work even harder”
Adrian Stoica: I can´t say we´ve very happy. We´ll have to do an analysis to see where we are and what we can do till [...]
From GSP:
The Romanian National team coach, who returned from Tokyo together with his gymnasts on Monday evening, stated at the Henri Coanda airport that he will be going back to hard trainings. “Those who can cope, will cope! Those who won’t, won’t!” The Romanian delegation returned from the Tokyo World Championships without any medal, this [...]
