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Romanian national women’s volleyball team qualified for the 1980 Olympic Games.

Nadia Elena Comaneci is one of the symbols of the 1970s. Romania’s Nadia was the best athlete at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympic Games. Nadia was 14 years old when she won three Olympic gold medals in Montreal’76. Nadia had also made history when she became the first Olympic gymnast to score a perfect ten points (unven bars). Her distinction was the most important moment in the Games. Anita Verschoth, who is a sportswriter, wrote: «She stunned the judges as well as the crowd not only with double somersaults and twists but also with an uncommon consistency and stability even in her most difficult moves. She displayed an unflappable confidence and more stamina and strength than seemed possible for a body as apparently frail as hers. When the competition was over, everybody was talking about Comaneci. She had put an emphatie end to the classical style, with its emphasis on maturity and ladylike grace». Four years later, she won 2 gold medals at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow (Soviet Union). The following year Nadia won several medals at the1981Summer World University Games in Bucharest. Nadia was born on November 12, 1961 in Onesti, Romania.

This European country won two gold medals at the 1999 IAAF World Track and Field Championships in Seville (Spain ).

The most popular sports in Romania are soccer, handball, gymnastics, aquatics, tennis, volleyball, basketball, water polo, shooting, boxing and athletics.

Dinamo Bucharest was one of the most famous handball clubs in the world. This club won many international tournaments in Europe. Other popular clubs were Stiinta Bucharest (European champion), Uni Timisora, Rapid Bucharest (Continental champio ), Steaua Bucharest (European champion)…

Romania sent 63 athletes to the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Bucharest hosted the 1981 World University Games. More than 2,900 athletes from 86 countries competed in 10 sports. Romania had many winners: Emilian Nicula, Kurt Szilier, Dan Odorhean, Nadia Comaneci, Emilia Eberle , Doina Melinte, Florenta Craciunescu-Tacu and Carmen Bonaciu.

This European country participated in the Francophonie Games in 2001.

Romania won the gold medal in water polo in the World University Games in 1977.

The best Olympic athletes are: Nadia Comaneci (gymnastics), Viorica Viscopoleanu (long jump/ track & field/ Olympic champion, 1968), Lia Manoliu (discus throw /athletics/ gold medalist, 1968), Iolanda Balas (high jump /athletics/ gold medalist, 1960 & 1964), Mihaela Penes (javelin throw/ world champion/ Tokyo 1964), Ivan Patzaichin (kayak / world champion/ Mexico City 1968), Ion Drimba (fencing/ Olympic champion/ Mexico City 1968), Nicolae Martinescu (wrestling/ world champion/ Munich 1972), Corneliu Ion (rapid-fire pisto/ shooting/ Moscow 1980), Sanda Toma (single sculls/ rowing/ Moscow 1980), Doina Melinte (800m/ track & field/ Los Angeles 1984), Maricica Puica (3,000m/ athletics/ Los Angeles 1984), Ekaterina Szabo (floor exercises/ gymnastics/ Los Angeles 1984), Simona Pauca (balance beam/ gymnastics/ Los Angeles 1984), Paula Ivan (1, 500m/ track & field/ Seoul 1988), Daniela Silivas (asymmetrical bars/ gymnastics/ Seoul 1988), Sorin Babii (free pistol/ shooting/ Seoul 1988), Lavinia Milosovici (floor exercises/ gymnastics/ Barcelona 1992), Elisabeta Lipa (single sculls/ rowing/ Barcelona 1992), Laura Badea (foil individual/ fencing/ Atlanta 1996), Simona Amanar (side horse vault/ gymnastics/ Atlanta 1996), Gabriela Szabo (5,00m/ athletics/ Sydney 2000), Mihai Claudiu Covaliu (sabre individual/ fencing/ Sydney 2000), Dina Monacu (100m & 200m backstroke/ swimming/ Sydney 2000), Marius Urzica (pommeled horse/ gymnastics/ Sydney 2000), Camelia Potec (200m freestyle/ aquatics/ Athens 2004), Catalina Ponor (floor exercise/ gymnastics/ Athens 2004)…

This European country won the gold medal at the 1970 World Women’s Handball Championships in Amsterdam (Holland).

Elisabeta Lipa was the flag bearer of the Romanian Olympic team at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Greece.

Bucharest hosted the World Women’s Handball Championships in 1962. Final standings:

1.Romania

2.Denmark

3.Czechoslovakia

From 1924 to 2004, Romania -former socialist republic- has won 283 Olympic medals (82 golds, 88 silvers, 113 bronzes). Unlike Bulgaria, Cuba, North Korea, Poland, Vietnam, Hungary and Ethiopia, Romania did not boycott the Olympic Games in 1984. This European country sent 127 athletes to the Olympic Games in the United States.

Hosts………………..Gold……Silver… Bronze…Total….Ranking

Paris-1924……………0………..0…………1…………1……….23

Berlin-1936…………..0………..1…………0…………1………25

Helsinki-1952……….1……….1…………2…………4………23

Melbourne-1956……5……….3…………5………..13………9

Rome-1960…………..3……….1…………6………..10……..11

Tokyo-1964……………2………4…………6…………12…….14

Mexico-1968………….4………6…………5…………15…….12

Munich-1972…………3………6…………7…………16…….13

Montreal-1976………4………9……….14…………27………9

Moscow-1980………6……….6………13…………25………7

Los Angeles-84…..20…….16……..17…………53………2

Seoul-1988…………..7……..11……….6…………24………8

Barcelona-92……….4………..6……….8…………18…….14

Atlanta-1996…………4……….7……….9…………20……..14

Sydney-2000………11……….6……….9…………26……..11

Athens-2004………..8……….5………..6…………19……..14

The new season has seen eight new faces at Liverpool FC – nine if you include manager Roy Hodgson. For anyone thinking of visiting Anfield to watch the Reds, here’s a run down Liverpool’s new signings for the 2010/11 season…

PAUL KONCHESKY The former Fulham left-back arrived on Merseyside for a deal in the region of £4 million and made his debut against Birmingham City on 12 September 2010. The 29-year-old career began at Charlton, where he made 149 appearances and scored 5 goals. Since then, he’s enjoyed spells at West Ham and Fulham, where he played under new Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson.

RAUL MEIRELES Arriving from Porto, the central midfielder is known for his wide range of passing and long-range shooting. In 137 appearances for the Portuguese club, notching 15 goals. Also capable of playing the holding midfield role, Meireles has 40 caps for Portugal with an impressive seven international goals to his name.

BRAD JONES Australian international, Jones, joined from Championship club Middlesborough to provide challenge and provide support for Pepe Reina in the Liverpool goal. During his time at Boro, he played 57 times and gained further experience on loan at five clubs. The 28 year-old is yet to make his debut for Liverpool, but did star in Jamie Carragher’s testimonial.

CHRISTIAN POULSEN The 30-year-old defensive midfielder was already familiar to Hodgson, having played under the former Fulham chief while the pair were at FC Copenhagen. Before joining Copenhagen, the Danish international played for Nordvest FC, but has since gone on to enjoy successful spells at Shalke 04, Sevilla and most recently Juventus. He has 78 caps for his country, scoring six times.

JOE COLE With 56 England caps, Cole joined the club on a free transfer in the summer having decided to leave Chelsea at the end of his contract. He played 183 times for the current Premier League champions, winning the title and FA Cup three times each during his seven year stay. He began his career at West Ham United, where his dazzling skills from an attacking midfield role brought him to the attention of England for the first time.

MILAN JOVANOVIC Serbian star, Jovanovic, arrived in July from Belgian side Standard Liege, where he made 116 appearances. During that time the striker netted 52 times, although his time at Liverpool so far has seen him play from wide on the left of midfield. He has a one in three goalscoring record for his country, with 10 goals in 32 caps. He also scored the winning goal in Serbia’s 1-0 victory over Germany at this year’s FIFA World Cup.

DANNY WILSON Just 18 years old, but already a Scotland U21 star, this centre-back starlet joined from SPL giants Rangers, where he made 14 first team appearances. He has already been awarded the FWA Young Player of the Year and 2010 Scottish PFA Young Player of the Year.

JONJO SHELVEY With England U16, U17 and U21 caps to his name, Shelvey was regarded as one of the hottest young talents outside of the top flight when Liverpool parted with £1.7 million for his services in April. Although yet to done the famous red shirt of Liverpool, the talented midfielder made 42 first-team starts for Charlton and bagged 7 goals.

If you’re ready to watch these new stars, as well as the likes of Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres, why not make the trip to Liverpool by train? With excellent transport links, you could make your way into Liverpool Lime Street or Liverpool Central before heading to the ground.

Table tennis evolved first in China and eventually moved to Europe, and then the United States. Some say «Ping-Pang» was the first name of the game because it sounded like the words spoken in the Chinese language in the 7th Century, which later evolved to «Ping Pong.» By the 8th Century, the game began to spread to India, Persia and ultimately to the West. These early games were played by hitting a dried Chinese fruit called a lichee.

Others say that the sound heard when playing ping pong on European rackets (made of pieces of paper stretched on a frame) resulted first in the nickname of «Whiff-Whaff» and later «Ping-Pong.» In Europe many people believe ping pong was invented by army officers who used rounded wine corks for balls and old cigar boxes as paddles. Ping pong remained popular as a party game for rich people in England until it officially became a competitive sport in 1927.

Eventually, the popularity of ping pong in Europe led game manufacturers to sell ping pong equipment commercially, at first under the name «Gossima.» But the name «Ping-Pong» was already widely used before English manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd. formalized it in 1901. Jaques & Son eventually sold the rights of the «Ping-Pong» name to the American company Parker Brothers.

James Gibb, an English enthusiast of the game, discovered novelty celluloid balls on a trip to the U.S. in and found them to be the ideal balls for the game. In the 1950s, a plastic balls were mass produced and table tennis exploded in world wide popularity, especially in Asia, where countries like China and South Korea have produced most of the top players in the world. According to the National Sporting Goods Association, in America the majority of people played ping pong in their homes — in attics or basement recreation rooms. Table tennis attracts larger followings in China, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Denmark and Germany. In comparison with sports like golf or baseball, it is inexpensive.

As ping pong’s popularity has grown, changes have been made to tournament rules to make ping pong’s rapid game play more accessible to spectators. This back-and-forth sport has a ball that travels up to 100 miles per hour. In 2000, the International Table Tennis Federation changed the official size of ping pong balls from 38 mm to 40 mm to slow the action, and games were reduced from 21 points to 11 points to make them more exciting. Players are also no longer permitted to hide the ball in their palm during service.

Ping pong played a large role in the development of arcade games and the personal computer. Atari’s Pong, a ping pong game released in 1972, was the first video game to achieve significant commercial success. Home and arcade versions of Pong helped make electronic ping pong the gaming phenomenon of the 1970s, which was a good decade for ping pong. In April, 1971, nine American ping pong players spent a week in China playing exhibition matches against the best Chinese ping pong players. This «ping pong diplomacy» paved the way for President Richard Nixon’s historic visit 10 months later.

Ping pong has since become the largest participation sport in the world, according to the International Olympic Committee, which made ping pong an official Olympic game in 1988 in Seoul. Today, over 40 million people play ping pong competitively worldwide.

Although it may be impossible to accurately state when and where the game of soccer originated, history has shown us glimpses of a game similar to our present day version being played for over 3000 years.

Around the 2nd or 3rd Century BC, it was documented that the Chinese military during the Han Dynasty played a game involving kicking a ball into a small net.

A game similar to soccer was played by the ancient Greeks and Romans but their game could include up to 27 players on a side compared to the modern day game of 11 players to a side.

Soccer became one of the most popular sports of the masses due to its popularity as a war game. A game of «football» which the British called it, was played in the east of England during the 8th Century where the head of a defeated Danish Prince was used as the ball.

During medieval times, villages and towns were pitted against each other in game battles that could take all day. There were no structured rules to abide by and kicking, biting, gouging and punching turned the game into a virtual battle of survival. These matches became so violent that the English authorities made many attempts to have soccer banned.

King Edward III from England passed laws in 1331 to abolish the game and Queen Elizabeth I had a law passed that provided a one week jail sentence for anyone caught playing soccer.

Despite these efforts, the game of soccer became so popular in England over the next few centuries that it evolved as the most popular sport of its time.

At this point, the only shortcoming of the sport was its lack of rules or standards. In 1815, Eton College, a famous English school, established a set of rules to be implemented by other schools, colleges and universities.

A standardized version of these rules were later adopted in 1848 by most of England’s colleges and universities that were known as the Cambridge Rules.

Unfortunately, at this point, there were still two different sets of rules being used. Some colleges favored the Rugby Rules which allowed carrying the ball with your hands, tripping and kicking to the shins. which were contrary to the Cambridge Rules.

In 1863, The Football Association was created by eleven English soccer clubs and schools to establish a single set of rules to be enforced when they played against each other.

The supporters of the Rugby School rules objected to the changes and the two groups split apart. The Football Association later changed the rules in 1869 where they forbade the use of hands, except by the goalie, which led us to the game of soccer as we know it today.

The English still called it a game of «football» because the ball was played primarily with the feet but in the late 18th Century, the word, «soccer», was first used by a student of Oxford University by the name of Charles Wreford Brown. The students at Oxford were known for using slang where they added «er» to the end of words that they intentionally shortened. The game of Rugby was called «rugger». Brown shortened the word «association» and added «er» and the term «soccer» was born.

Since the 19th Century the game has evolved to where it is today. It is the World’s Game that is played by more people than any other sport and is universally recognized as the most popular game in sports history.

The World Cup which is held every four years to crown a World Champion draws millions of spectators to the 32 games played and is watched by billions of fans from around the globe thanks to modern day satellite television technology.

The popularity of soccer continues to grow as organized youth soccer programs are getting a young fan base involved at an early age which will fuel its growth for years to come.