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Octavian Bellu: “We don’t want to take any risk with Izbasa”
From Adevarul: Octavian Bellu, head coach of the Romanian gymnastics team, said on Friday he didn´t want to take chances with Sandra Izbasa, who is still feeling some pain in the foot she had surgery on, so he didn´t include
A journey through the capital of gymnastics` history and emotions @ RepublicaHD article
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
The 2011 Romanian Nationals @ The Medal Factory Ep.14
[The Medal Factory Episode 14 – part 1 & part 2 – (c)DigiSport] TRANSLATION 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
Ana Porgras – “If you cannot get on that podium for Romania, you are missing something…” @ The Medal Factory Ep.13
[The Medal Factory – episode 13 (c) DigiSport] TRANSLATION 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,
Sabina Cojocar: “I needed years to find myself again, to cope with the thought that I would not be doing gymnastics again” @ The Medal Factory – Ep. 12
[The Medal Factory – episode 12 (c) Digisport] TRANSLATION 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
Katy Szabo: “I happily come to Romania, the country that humiliated me so many times!” @ Jurnalul National
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