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[Feb 28 / March 1] Happy Birthday to Alexandra
GHITA !
Her Birthday is on Feb 29, but...
[Feb 28] Prince
Charles slams the Big Mac
CatererSearch, UK
Prince Charles slammed fast-food
giant McDonald’s yesterday and seemed to call for a ban on
the Big Mac. During a tour of the Imperial College London
Diabetes Centre in Abu Dhabi, the Prince – a fervent supporter
of organic food - asked a nutritionist whether they had “got
anywhere with McDonalds?” 
Related: Mac
Attack - Prince Charles Chews The Fat
[Feb 28]
Gymnastics
Legend Visits Cancer Patient, Gymnast
News4Jax.com, FL
Gymnastics legend Bela
Karolyi was recently in Jacksonville to talk about
the sport he helped shape and also to visit a special young
gymnast. Karolyi stopped by Wolfson Children's Hospital, where
he talked about the importance of physical fitness and spent
some time with Whitney Pinson, who is using her love of gymnastics
as inspiration in her battle with cancer.
* Video:
Legendary
Gymnastics Coach Visits Teen At Wolfson
[Feb
28] Historian's
Dracula book gets him out of jail early
Seattle Times, WA
IASI, Romania — A U.S. historian sentenced
to seven years in prison for sexual perversion and abuse of
minors won early release  from
prison Tuesday because he wrote a book about Dracula,
his attorney said. Kurt W. Treptow, of Miami Beach, left the
prison in the northeastern city of Iasi in his lawyer's car
after serving less than five years.
[our note: Treptow also edited the -very expensive, $12,50/copy-
Romanian Gymnastics Magazine-see cover photo left and also
has launched the first version
of RGF official website; see 1st
version click here; last
version,click here]
He was sentenced to the maximum of seven
years in December 2002 for offenses involving two girls, ages
10 and 13, whom he invited into his home in Iasi. A Romanian
woman convicted of being his accomplice remains in prison.
Treptow, who first studied in Romania as
a Fulbright scholar during the communist regime that toppled
in 1989, has written and edited numerous books
on Romanian history, including one about Romania's pro-Hitler
World War II dictator, Marshal Ion Antonescu, and another
on Vlad Tepes, the historical model for Dracula. He also
wrote "Romanian
Gymnastics."
Treptow moved to Romania in the 1990s and was
director of the Center
for Romanian Studies in Iasi. The center is housed
in a building owned by the espionage service. The service
has declined to say whether Treptow worked for it.
Related:
BBC
News, UK: Paedophile
freed for Dracula book
Mediafax,
Romania : Kurt
Treptow In Panic Outside The Penitentiary
Associated
Press: Dracula
book gets American early release
[Feb 28]
Romanian coach banned for abusing gymnast
Guardian Unlimited, UK
A Romanian coach has been banned for a year by
his national federation for physically abusing a 15-year-old
female gymnast, an official told Reuters on Tuesday.
"The (Romanian Gymnastics Federation) FRG board
banned coach Mihael Anton for 12 months after he was found
to have verbally and physically attacked promising gymnast
Emanuela Rusu," FRG president Adrian Stoica said. Stoica
said footage captured on a mobile phone had proved that Anton
swore at Rusu before striking her face several times during
a training session in the western city of Timisoara.
Related:
Supersport, South Africa: Romanian
coach banned for abuse
Reuters India, India: Romanian
coach banned for abusing gymnast
Townsville Bulletin, Australia: Video
traps
violent coach
Namibian, Namibia: Coach
banned for abuse
[Feb
27] The
abusive coach Mihai Anton has been suspended by RGF
Romanian Gymnastics Federation has announced
that coach Mihai Anton from CSM Onesti has been suspended
for one year from coaching.
TVR1
broadcasted again the video,
click here and go to 1h03min
[Feb 26]
Catalina Ponor, out of training for two weeks!
Catalina
Ponor has got scarlet fever and is out of training
for two weeks, missing the coming European Championships ,
has announced Romanian ProTv station at late evening sport
news, minutes ago.
[Feb 24]
Andreea
Grigore and Flavius Koczi
at 2007
Tyson American Cup
Andreea
Grigore and Flavius
Koczi will will compete for Romania in the 2007 Tyson
American Cup at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena in
Jacksonville, Fla. The Tyson American Cup, held on March 3
at 11:30 a.m., features eight men and eight women, including
two men and two women from the USA, in the all-around finals.
[Feb
23] ProTV
will broadcast a
video evidence with Timisoara abuses
click
to see a video evidence
[new
link]
Pro
Tv Report, click here
[Feb
19] Emanuela Rusu, another revealed case of abuses in Romanian
gymnastics
Bucharest,
Prosport
To see the original articles, go to
the Prosport
site, clik on Special tab (top of page, rght) then look
for these articles:
# A fost batuta si înfometata! ; Drama unei gimnaste;
Numai prostii;! Sa aduca dovezi!; Cadouri
contra blândete! ; Antrenorii de la Timisoara neaga
toate acuzatiile
TVR1
report ,click here (go
to min 1h06min) -valid
1 week only!
[Feb 18]
About Romania: Sharing
Romanian Under a Sphinx
New York Times
New York: MARIGOLD walls, goldenrod tablecloths,
egg yolks spilling into moist corn-colored mamalia: yellow,
yellow, yellow at Acasa in Sunnyside, Queens. Acasa is
a new Romanian place on a stretch of Skillman Avenue that’s
not poor in the Romanian department.
The dining room is dominated by a massive photo
mural that struck me as being sci-fi: a solar eclipse in a
red sky on one end; a rocky, Martian outcropping on the other.
That’s what too much goulash will get you into, I thought.
[Feb
13] Andreea
Raducan speaks about her life after gymnastics
 Former
Romanian gymnast Andreea
Raducan has spoken about her life after gymnastics,
during a TV lifestyle program (available
on web, click here).
"After I quit gymnastics,
I become overweight and I didn't followed any special diet,
fitness program or something like that", says Andreea
Raducan. "I think that after a while, my body
has come back in shape-1 year and a half after ending my gym
career- whithout doing much efforts. At this moment, I don't
think I need to use any diet program, I feel good as I am.
I do exercise to maintain a good tonus for the body and
[Feb
12] Romanian
gymnast Daniela Sofronie celebrated her Birthday
Romanian gymnast, former Athens Olympic
Golden Team member Daniela
Sofronie has already celebrated her Birthday, Saturday
evening.
[Feb
12] First
Romanian gymnastics Club private owned
First Romanian gymnastics Club private owned
was opened at Constanta.
The owners are former European and World Aerobics Gymnastics
Champions Dana and Remus Neculai.
About
Romania(ns): Emoticoncert
- Mad World /
Yahoo.com Special Prize
[Feb 7]
Your
guide to scoring college gymnastics
CSTV.com - New York,NY,USA
In a typical gymnastics meet, six gymnasts
compete in each of the four events: vault, uneven bars, balance
beam and floor exercise. The lowest score for each rotation
is dropped, and the remaining scores make up the team score
for that rotation. At the end of the meet, the four rotation
scores are added together to determine the team's total score.
[Feb 7]
Top male gymnasts to compete at 2007 Winter Cup Challenge
2006 pommel horse world bronze-medalist Alexander
Artemev of Morrison, Colo./Team Chevron, and 2005-06 Winter
Cup Challenge all-around champion David Durante of Garwood,
N.J./Team Chevron, are among the 13 members of the current
U.S. Men’s Senior National Team who will compete at the
2007 Winter Cup Challenge, Feb. 8 and 10, at the Las Vegas
Sports Center in Las Vegas.
Fans across the country can enjoy the action
from the final day of the Winter Cup Challenge via a free,
live Web cast at usa-gymnastics.org
on Feb. 10 from 7-10 p.m. Pacific Time. U.S. Olympians Steve
McCain (2000) and Mihai Bagiu (1996) will serve as
commentators for the free Web cast...
[Feb 7]
Forbes - NY,USA: Paul
Hamm to Return to Gymnastics
Olympic champion Paul Hamm has decided
to return to competitive gymnastics, hoping for a less tumultuous
path to the all-around title at the Beijing Olympics than
the one he took in Athens.
Hamm and his twin brother, Morgan, met last weekend
with USA Gymnastics officials to confirm they both had decided
to return. They plan to participate in a limited number of
events in 2007 while they finish school and get back into
competitive shape.
[Feb 6]
Gymnastics
a sport of brutality, masked by grace
Seattle
Times - Seattle,WA,USA
Fogle
has suffered fractures in her knee and ankle, and had surgery
to remove bone chips in her left ankle. She is far from alone
in her pain. Talk to coaches and athletes, and they all seem
to have stories of horrific injuries and chronic pain. Toughness
is something most expect to find on a football field, but
check out this weekend's district gymnastics meets to find
some of the toughest high-school athletes around.
"I hate to imagine the long-term effects
on some of the kids who do it for so long. You watch what
they do, hold your breath and hope for the best. It's just
kind of scary sometimes, but they do it." It's a sport of
brutality masked by grace.
[Feb
6] Deva
-The City of Gold- waterless!
A major failure into the city of Deva water system
has left the 65,000 people waterless until tomorrow! The local
hospital will use the fire emergency reserve for most urgent
needs, TV Antena1 said. Romanian gymnastics team will use
bottles of mineral water , romanian gymnastics.com just heard.
[Feb 5]
Sporting No. 10s: 10 Nadia Comaneci
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,Australia
Think of the number 10 and you think perfection.
Think of perfection in sport and instantly you think of Romanian
gymnast Nadia
Comaneci.
Aged just 14, she was the darling of the 1976 Olympics in
Montreal. She won three golds, a silver and a bronze medal.
In the uneven bars in the team competition she became the
first gymnast in Olympic history to receive the perfect score
of 10.0, a feat she would repeat six times over the course
of the competition.
[Feb
5] Catalina
Ponor and Loredana Boboc at World Class Gymnastics
Photo-news
for romanian-gymnastics.com by: Andreea Luca / Hamilton, Canada
We had Catalina
Ponor and Loredana
Boboc come at Cristina
Bontas's World
Class Gymnastics for a show, pictures  and
sign autographs.
CH news from Hamilton came, the romanian press and
also the Hamilton Spectator newspaper. The girls also had
a visit from the Canadian Federation people.
We took tons of pictures and videotapped the whole
show. It seemed like the girls enjoyed themselves. After
the show, Cristina
Bontas, her husband Gabi, and I (Andreea Luca) took
them to see Niagara Falls and we also went for dinner. We
had sooo much fun, and the girls are so funny and open minded
about everything
[Feb 3] Romanian gymnastics Stars in TVR1 Show
Top Romanian Gymnastics Stars- Nadia
Comaneci,
Andreea
Raducan ,
Monica Rosu and former coaches Octavian
Bellu and Mariana
Bitang were the guests of TVR1 Show "Stele de
5 Stele" (Five Stars) last evening.
To see the recorded
1 hour show, click here (available only until Feb
9).If you don't have Quiqtime and want to use Flashplayer,
click
here and look for "Vineri, Februarie 3" and
the show name "Stele de 5 Stele".
[Feb 2] Aluissa
Lacusteanu, Best Athlete of Hunedoara County
Last evening Aluissa
Lacusteanu got The Best Athlete of Hunedoara Award during
the "Gala of Hunedoara's Sport" hosted by Deva Cultural
Center.
Local county Sport department named Aluissa
Lacusteanu Hunedoara's County Best Athlete in 2006
for her results at European Championships (Silver with the
Team, Gold at FX, Bronze at BB) and Nationals (Gold with the
Team, Silver at vault, UB and BB, Bronze at AA.
Loredana Sucar
(WCh- 4 with the team; Nationals- Gold with the team, Bronze
at FX) from the Romanian gymnastics team ranked the 3rd; Cerasela
Patrascu
ranked 4th, and Alexandra
Ghita ranked 7.
CSS Cetate Deva Gymnastics Club was named
Best 2006 Club in Hunedoara County; Best Coach was named
Liliana
Cosma . To solve a local dispute among Olympic and
non-Olympic sports, the County sport department has made two
different rankings: Olympics sports and non-Olymics. Former
coach Octavian
Belu did not attended the ceremonies, despite having
a VIP invitation; he seems to (still) have resentments on
gymnastics. Giant fireworks ended the ceremony.
[Jan 31] Bill Gates in Romania
Bill Gates of Microsoft just landed in Romania,
15 minutes ago; he will open tomorrow a new Support Center
in Bucharest, covering whole Europe; will also launch the
new Vista operating system in Romania. The second spoken language
at Microsoft is...Romanian.
[Jan 31] Magical
memories to live in the mind
By Christophe, IOC Planner
I have emotional sporting memories too. I will
never forget, as a child, watching Nadia
Comaneci’s
amazing performance in 1976...
[Jan 31]
Nadia Comaneci's mother will get married
 Nadia
Comaneci's mother, Mrs.Stefania Comaneci will get
married soon, after a 3 years relationship with her fiancee,
Mihai Nedelea. Last year they got engaged and they live together
in Bucharest.
The new comer in the "Perfect Ten's"
family is well seen by everybody. Andrei Comaneci,
Nadia
Comaneci's Brother: "My mother's fiancee is
a simple man with a good character; it doesn't matter his
social status and what he did for a living (meaning he isn't
a VIP) , but only the fact that he is making my Mom happy."
The new couple-Mrs.Stefania Comaneci
and fiancee Mihai Nedelea- made their fist public appearance
at ROC's Gala dedicated to Nadia, Monday evening at Hilton
Hotel in Bucharest.
[Jan 31] Former
gymnastics star Andreea Raducan claims back Sydney medal
Romanian gymnast Andreea
Raducan has requested the International Olympic Committee
to give her back the medal she won at the Sydney Olympics
in 2000.
Andreea
Raducan had her medal withdrawn because she was found
to have used a then-illegal substance, pseudoephedrine, an
ingredient of a simple cold pill. The substance was since
removed from the list of drugs banned in sporting events.
The Romanian Sports Olympics Committee is currently
considering how to support Andreea
Raducan’s attempt to get back the Olympic title she
was stripped of in Sydney, years after the World Anti-doping
Agency removed the substance from the banned list.
[Jan 31] Aluissa
Lacusteanu, Best Athlete of Hunedoara County
Aluissa
Lacusteanu, member of Romanian National gymnastics
Team, was named Hunedoara's County Best Athlete in 2006.
On January 31, Aluissa
Lacusteanu will get The Best Athlete of Hunedoara
Award during the "Gala of Hunedoara's Sport" hosted
by Deva Cultural Center.
Local county Sport department named Aluissa
Lacusteanu Hunedoara's County Best Athlete in 2006
for her results at European Championships (Silver with the
Team, Gold at FX, Bronze at BB) and Nationals (Gold with the
Team, Silver at vault, UB and BB, Bronze at AA.
[Jan 30] The
Don King of gymnastics: Bela Karolyi
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
Bela
Karolyi did interviews with just about every media
outlet in the Bay Area because nobody does it better. He sounded
like a revival preacher talking about Mary Lou Retton
- thousands of times he has done this speech, and still with
the gesticulating!
"These coming up championships are going to
have the biggest surprises anyone has ever seen'' he promised.
Why? Because the juniors we've never heard of "are
gonna come in with the HUNGER! and the desire and the performance.''
He called the current champions "goddesses'' and the
pending battle a ``dogfight.'' With two-time
national champion Nastia Liukin six feet away, he said,
"We want to see because we are bad guys and we
want to see the queen dying.'' He's Don King, only
the hair flows wildly from his lip and not the top of his
head.
[Jan 29] Nadia
Comaneci offered 10 scholarships for CSS 2 gymnasts
Bucharest
– Nadia
Comaneci and
Niro Group on Monday offered 10 scholarships to gymnasts from
School Sport Club 2 from Bucharest, Rompres reports.
Nadia
Comaneci became
for three years the image of the group, within the partnership
“We invest in people, we invest in the future,” which consists
of social programmes destined to sportsmen and women, underprivileged,
old people, poor and orphan children.
The EUR 1,200 scholarships (EUR 100/month,
for one year) were received by gymnasts Cristina Petcu,
Raluca Nistor, Andreea Gheorghe, Cristina
Tudose, Cristina Stefan, Mihaela Tone, Roberta
Butuc, Andreea Codrat, Florina Dan and Georgiana
Sulugiuc.
Nadia
Comaneci said
she came with excitement at the club that she knows very well.
She also talked about her partnership with Niro. “The
gymnastics team from CSS 2 proved good results through seriousness
and perseverance. I am glad companies from Romania think at
sport in general, and at gymnastics particularly,”
Nadia
Comaneci asserted.
 [Jan
28] Staying
alive
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
For
that, cardio exercise at home or in gyms is the heart of the
matter.
The international gym chain which has helped Muhammad
Ali and Shaquille O’Neal, Sylvester Stallone
and Wesley Snipes and Nadia
Comaneci and Anna Kournikova stay in shape,
is launching a 70-km Cardio Thon in town, a competitive introduction
to Gold’s cardio programme.
[Jan 22] Camelia
Voinea To Open 1st Private Gymnastics School In Romania
CONSTANTA, Mediafax Agency: Camelia
Voinea, Romania’s
former champion in female’s gymnasts back in 1987 will soon
open in Constanta, southeastern Romania, the first private
School of Gymnastics in Romania to function in Sala Tomis
Hall.
Camelia
Voinea said she was more than sure that very soon,
many former champions in gymnastics would take her example
and thus, the number of such schools in Romania will soon
go up. Camelia
Voinea plans to include Romania’s former members of
the national gymnastics team, Daniela
Sofronie and Catalina
Ponor, in her training staff.
[Jan 21] INSIGHT:
Romania: celebrating history at present
Sofia Echo - Sofia,Bulgaria
US Open and Roland Garos winner Ilie Nastase
and the Olympic champion gymnast Nadia
Comaneci are saluted by all citizens of the world,
as are the gymnastics coaches Marta and
Bela
Karolyi.
[Jan 5] Ploiesti International Gymnastics Championships
Q: Can I please have the dates & location of the
2007 Romanian International ? Any information that you
could email would be most appreciative. Thank you.
Christian Candela
A: 2007 International Gymnastics Championships: April
13-15, Ploiesti
East
Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA: Why
10?
Why 10?
# For starters, Americans are comfortable with
the number 10.
#Our mathematical system is even structured on
base 10.
#We have 10 fingers on which to count and 10 toes
if things get hairy.
#We award first downs in football for every 10
yards gained.
#We have Ten Commandments to follow.
#We launch rockets with a countdown from 10,
# we
make top 10 lists and
# we celebrate perfect 10s, as Nadia
Comaneci proved
[Jan 4] Octavian
Belu was installed as ANS President
Former Romanian Gymnastics main coach Octavian
Belu has started today to work in his new job as ANS (Romanian
Sport Agency) President. The Government just provided
the largest budget in Romania's history for the sport -but
still far from providing enough funds, because of the weak
economy and resources.
[Jan
2] Nadia
Comaneci Voted Athlete Of The Century In El Mundo Deportivo
Poll
BUCHAREST, Mediafax
/ Former Romanian gymnast Nadia
Comaneci was
voted the athlete of the century by the readers of Spanish
newspaper El Mundo Deportivo, according to a poll carried
out on the occasion of celebrating 100 years since the foundation
of the newspaper.
Nadia
Comaneci obtained
29% of the readers'' votes and was followed by tennis player
Martina Navratilova, with 23%, and Steffi Graf,
with 18%.
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