Page 1 of 5 123 ... LastLast
Results 1 to 21 of 88

Thread: European Championships WAG and MAG 2010

  1. #1
    gymnastics fan ioanavol's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Posts
    4,642
    Reputatie
    1

    European Championships WAG and MAG 2010

    I have decided to open a thread for the EC in Birmingham also on the English forum.

    I remind you the program, which for MAG has been delayed one day because of the recent events in Iceland:

    MAG
    - April: 20, 21: podium training;
    - April 22: Qualifications juniors for CE and YOG;
    - April 23: Qualifications seniors;
    - April 24: AA juniors & Team finals seniors;
    - April 25: EFs (juniors+seniors).

    WAG:
    - April 26&27: Podium training;
    - April 28: Qualifications juniors for CE and YOG;
    - April 29: Qualifications seniors;
    - April 30: AA juniors;
    - May 1st: Team final seniors;
    - May 2nd: EFs (juniors+seniors);

    Official site: http://www.europeangymnastics2010.org/Default.aspx

    Participants:
    WAG http://www.ueg-gymnastics.com/commst...&ID=900&inline
    MAG http://www.ueg-gymnastics.com/commst...&ID=899&inline

    From Romania:

    MAG juniors: Andrei Muntean, Daniel Radeanu, Laurentiu Ioan Nistor, Andrei Groza, Adelin Kotrong;
    MAG seniors: Flavius Koczi, Alin Jivan, Ovidiu Buidoso, Adrian Bucur, Cosmin Iancu (replacing Cristian Bataga);

    WAG juniors: Larisa Iordache, Diana Bulimar, Maria Balea, Madalina Neagu, Beatrice Margarit (replacing Ana Maria Baicu);
    WAG seniors: Ana Porgras, Amelia Racea, Diana Chelaru, Raluca Haidu and Cerasela Patrascu.

    The EC will be broadcasted by TVR. (where online?)
    Last edited by ioanavol; 21st April 2010 at 18:27.

  2. #2
    gymnastics fan ioanavol's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Posts
    4,642
    Reputatie
    1
    Apparently both the guys and the girls haven't left yet, and since it takes about 3 days by bus/train/ferry from Romania to UK, I guess at least the guys won't be able to arrive at all I don't think this ash cloud situation will be gone this week...
    Such a weird situation...also for the EC rythmic gymnastics in Bremen (but at least that's more in the middle) and for the EC trampoline in Bulgaria.

  3. #3
    gymnastics fan ioanavol's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Posts
    4,642
    Reputatie
    1
    The MAG team has left today from Bucharest by train in the direction Budapest. They should arrive in the UK on Tuesday.
    (thx to Marianne for the news)

  4. #4
    senior
    Join Date
    Jan 2008
    Location
    Cairo, Egypt
    Posts
    155
    Reputatie
    1
    Great! ... at the same time not so great that they will have lost some days of training and let's not count out the tiredness caused by such a long and not very comfortable travel.

  5. #5
    gymnastics fan ioanavol's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Posts
    4,642
    Reputatie
    1
    I think they will be broken...and they will only have one day for training (if any). Hope everything goes ok for them!

    Apparently the Russians have much bigger problems, since they would need visa for every country they cross...so for them bus/train/ferry is no real option.
    Marty, if you have more info, pls let us know.
    Last edited by ioanavol; 18th April 2010 at 23:48.

  6. #6
    sport legend Marty R.'s Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2009
    Posts
    745
    Reputatie
    1
    No more... I'll be glad to give more information, but that's all I know.

  7. #7
    gymnastics fan ioanavol's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Posts
    4,642
    Reputatie
    1
    Apparently Mircea Apolzan (secretary of RGF) gave an interview at a local radio station. He said that our team will arrive tomorrow eve and that the competition will start on Thursday, as planned. (thx Marianne)

    Up to now the following teams arrived or are on their way to Birmingham (20 out of 37):
    UK, Belgium, France, Irland, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovacia, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Croatia, Luxemburg, Norway, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania, Danemark, Finland, Italy

    Unfortunatelly there are teams which already announced they won't come: Georgia, Belarus and Portugal

    (source TAAF)

    I personally really hope the Russians and Ucraineans will manage to come (although if they haven't left yet it's virtually impossible at the moment). The Europeans are really not the same without them!

    UPDATE:
    Israel, Turkey and Greece announced that they won't participate unless they can travel by plane. (source: Nora, TAAF)
    Last edited by ioanavol; 19th April 2010 at 16:46.

  8. #8
    gymnastics fan ioanavol's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Posts
    4,642
    Reputatie
    1
    http://www.europeangymnastics2010.org/Default.aspx

    Due to the disruptions to the European Gymnastics Championships schedule, the following amendments have been made to the programme for the men’s competition only.

    Wednesday’s competition has been moved to Thursday
    Thursday’s competition has been moved to Friday
    Friday’s competition will now take place on Saturday morning

    Competition Times
    Thursday 22 April - 10am to 9.45pm
    Friday 23 April - 10am to 8.30pm
    Saturday 24 April – 11am to 1pm, Junior Team final
    2pm to 5pm, Senior Team final
    Sunday 25 April - 9.30am to 12.10pm, Junior Apparatus final
    1.45pm to 4.45pm, Senior Apparatus final

  9. #9
    sport legend Clau93's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2009
    Location
    Far Far Away
    Posts
    1,666
    Reputatie
    1
    My best advice would be that FIG should postpone these championships for at least one week, or in the worst case 2 weeks! It wouldn't harm anyone, would it? They have to take in consideration that these are important championships, the first team competition for 2 years and qualifications for the youth olympics!
    [SIZE="2"][B][COLOR="Red"]The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.[/COLOR][/B][/SIZE]

  10. #10
    gymnastics fan ioanavol's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Posts
    4,642
    Reputatie
    1
    Today at 10.00 hs (Local time) the MAG junior competition is planned to start. The competition will last the whole day and eve, till ~21.45 hs (local time).

    The competition today will count for:
    - the European team final
    - the qualifications for the AA and EFs this weekend
    - the qualifications for the YOG in Singapore (if it still goes through)

    The Romanian team members are: Andrei Muntean, Daniel Radeanu, Andrei Groza, Adelin Kotrong and Laurentiu Nistor.
    They will compete on: PB, HB, FX, PH, SR and VT. (in this order)

    We won't be able to see much on TV, so we'll have to totally rely on the German live ticker: http://gt-em2010.liveticker.dtb-onli...ker.php#latest

    Go Romania!!!
    Last edited by ioanavol; 22nd April 2010 at 11:17.

  11. #11
    sport legend Clau93's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2009
    Location
    Far Far Away
    Posts
    1,666
    Reputatie
    1
    Aren't they competing on floor?

    BAFTA BOYS!!
    [SIZE="2"][B][COLOR="Red"]The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.[/COLOR][/B][/SIZE]

  12. #12
    gymnastics fan ioanavol's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Posts
    4,642
    Reputatie
    1
    Sorry, you're right, I forgot it
    Thanx for the correction.

  13. #13
    junior Serena2010's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2010
    Location
    Bloomfield,USA
    Posts
    70
    Reputatie
    1
    Noroc Bun Romanian MAG Seniors and Juniors. It feels like I haven't been on here forever but thanks for the update.
    I hear the skies are open for flying so I hope this means the women will be able to fly to UK. I hope the Russian women can fly as well since Euros will be weird without Romania's biggest rivals going (ha ha).

    Thanks for the updates.....

  14. #14
    junior MartinaE's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2008
    Location
    Germany
    Posts
    87
    Reputatie
    1
    Yep the skies are open again here - saw lots of planes up there today!!! Most airlines are back on shedule, but they are still bringing all the people back to places who were stuck somewhere also....

  15. #15
    gymnastics fan ioanavol's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Posts
    4,642
    Reputatie
    1
    Results qualification and team finals juniors:

    Final ranking:

    1. UK - 252,975
    2. Switzerland - 248,525
    3. France- 244,550
    4. Romania - 244,500
    5. Germany 244,350
    6. Belgium 242,650
    7. Spain 241,600
    8. Italy 241,050

    We had at the end 7 qualifications in the finals this weekend:

    AA: Andrei Muntean and Daniel Radeanu
    FX: Andrei Groza and Adelin Kotrong
    SR: Andrei Muntean
    VT: Daniel Radeanu
    UB: Andrei Muntean

    The complete results here: http://www.longinestiming.com/sports...cours%20II.pdf and http://www.longinestiming.com/sports...ours%20III.pdf

    Congratulations and good luck in the finals!!!

    ---------------------

    For the MAG senior qualifications today Romania (Flavius Koczi, Ovidiu Buidoso, Cosmin Iancu, Adrian Bucur and Alin Jivan) will compete in the first subdivision, together with Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Portugal, Austria, Irland, Turkey and Finland.

    Starting list: http://longinestiming.com/sports/gym...ncours%20I.pdf

    The order of the events: rings, vault, bars, high bar, floor and pommel horse.

    The competition will start at 10hs GMT.

    Go Romaniaaa!
    Last edited by ioanavol; 23rd April 2010 at 12:25.

  16. #16
    junior Serena2010's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2010
    Location
    Bloomfield,USA
    Posts
    70
    Reputatie
    1
    Howdy everyone,

    Official results of Romanian men at Europeans (senior)

    Vault - Flavius Koczi - bronze

    Junior Men - Parallel Bars - Andrei Muntean - Gold
    Junior Men - Floor - Adelin Kotrong - Silver

    Congratulations

    I am so excited for the women's competition.

    Thanks Ioanavol for regular updates. Is there any chance of watching the Euros online outside of Europe ????

  17. #17
    senior
    Join Date
    Jan 2008
    Location
    Cairo, Egypt
    Posts
    155
    Reputatie
    1
    Phew! I'm so relieved that Flavius got at least one medal (I didn't care for the colour) because since all the retirements of last year and the sad string of injuries among the stars of the team, he's the one who has been basically supporting the whole team on his shoulders all along these championships.
    His colleagues still lack experience (except for Alin but until now he hasn't been back to his pre-injury level).
    I know it is perfectly unfair because you can't compare what was asked back then and what is asked of them now but while seeing the guys struggle during TF, I couldn't help remembering the 2004 Olympic stars (Dragulescu, Urzica, Suciu, Popescu, Potra) with a little pinch in my heart. Ah nostalgia...

    Congrats to te Juniors also of course, especially that I was so disappointed with Andrei not hitting the AA competition after a great qualie, his gold was like redemption and a gold on PB for Romania especially!

  18. #18
    gymnastics fan ioanavol's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Posts
    4,642
    Reputatie
    1
    Firstly, thanks Serena and SriEa for writting also here...I was starting to think that there are no English-speaking fans here anymore, since everybody's trying to learn Romanian nowadays

    I would also like to congratulate Flavius, first of all, for taking his role of a team leader seriously (and he's only 23 years old!!). It could have ended up better, but I am sure that for him it will only get better during the following competitions. He makes fewer and fewer mistakes each year!
    Congratulations to Adrian for qulifying in an European final, it should be a good confidence boost for him.
    Congratulations also to the other guys for doing everything they could, I know that Romania could have gotten very close to the podium without the falls...this will serve as an experience and at the qualifications in Rotterdam they will do much better (and qualify for the OGs)!
    ...and, of course I should congratulate the juniors, especially Andrei and Adelin, for their medals and for showing that Romanian team's future is in good hands!
    Last edited by ioanavol; 26th April 2010 at 12:40.

  19. #19
    junior MartinaE's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2008
    Location
    Germany
    Posts
    87
    Reputatie
    1
    Oh I am still here as well! I just did not get to see that much on TV....... Well I saw Eurosport`s coverage of the team final - but they hardly showed any Romanian routines in it so I can`t comment much. Then for EF they decided to completely change their shedule which caused me to miss that coverage completely.
    I really wish I will be more lucky for the women!!!! Sri Ea, do you know if Rai Sports might show something?? I hope Eurosport won`t be my only source for the competition.....

  20. #20
    gymnastics fan ioanavol's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Posts
    4,642
    Reputatie
    1
    For the ones who didn't watch everything (like me) here it is the Romanian coverage of the MAG competition (huge thanks to Amalia!!):

    team final - part 1 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R1TV2QIE
    team final - part 2 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4DTOBA7Z
    team final - part 3 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U3T49I68

    FX: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FAB7QWZ1
    PH: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7NX6WBXW
    VT: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SQI83QYX
    PB: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PEM9LD5N
    HB: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7R2NR5WN
    SR: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O17FR8Y0

    medal awarding ceremony: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SER9Y2V1
    Last edited by ioanavol; 28th April 2010 at 09:54.

  21. #21
    senior
    Join Date
    Jan 2008
    Location
    Cairo, Egypt
    Posts
    155
    Reputatie
    1
    Quote Originally Posted by MartinaE View Post
    Sri Ea, do you know if Rai Sports might show something?? I hope Eurosport won`t be my only source for the competition.....
    I know that Raisport will show the WAG TF on saturday (but it will be at night, at 10:30 pm italian time) I still don't know for the EF on sunday... but I hope they show them even with some days of delay.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •