He is the first Youth Olympic Champion in the history of Romanian artistic gymnastics. He has also won Junior European gold on parallel bars in 2010. These two medals have come to complete the other silver and bronze medals he has won throughout his career. You might think we are talking [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A coach’s best moments are those when his gymnast achieves great performances. There cannot be greater satisfaction than seeing his pupil on the podium at the World Championships or Olympic Games. We must also consider those gymnasts who get to guide other champions on the path to success. What could be more beautiful than seeing [...]
From Prosport:
Sandra Izbasa, the only European Olympic Champion at the last edition of the Games, comes from a sport where 18-19 year olds are considered “old” and life in a training camp and the actual trainings that used to measure days between competitions are just a memory.
In exactly 1 year, Sandra wants to defend the [...]
From GSP
With the return of the most awarded Romanian coaches in sports history, Ana Porgras won the World title after 9 years.
“It’s just the beginning” promises Octavian Bellu.
The coaches and girls will spend Christmas and New Year at Izvorani.
Reporter: This year you have returned to the Olympic team.
Bitang: Our return was not a radical change. [...]
From Prosport:
“No holiday” is the main statement you hear in Romanian gymnastics. At nearly the ending of the year, the technical staff of the women’s national gymnastics team presented to the Technical Committee of COSR their plans for the pre-Olympic year. Coach Mariana Bitang talked about challenging plans, but also about the motivation in training.
What [...]
From Prosport:
In two days, the women’s gymnastics team will go to Rotterdam, where the preparations for the World Championships will commence. On the last step, at the Izvorani training centre, the last few details are being worked on. Mariana Bitang talked about the expectations from this competition from Holland, surprisingly not joining the girls at [...]
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In Deva, there is a real factory which brought to Romania plenty of gymnasts. Long ago, our host started working in this factory. This man kept a low profile instead of being in the limelight; he put a hand concerning Romanian gymnastics. Today we’ll go to Nicolae Forminte’s home, the head coach of [...]
