Romania is good in sports :)

These days, everyone is checking the Olympics to see if his/her own country won something. Everyone or almost everyone is talking about results on TV, showing more or less criticism. As for Romanian media, I would say more criticism ...everyone expects a lot from our representatives to Beijing.

But I would say we should be proud: after 10 days of Olympics, the result for Romania is ranked on the 12th place in terms of medals won:

4 Gold medals:
Judo: 48 kg: Dumitru Alexandra
Women Gymnastics: Izbasa Sandra
Rowing: Women pair: Andrunache Georgeta, Susanu Viorica
Athletics: Women Marathon: Constantina Dita


1 Silver Medal:
Fencing: Branza Ana-Maria

3 Bronze Medals:
Fencing: Mihai Covaliu
Women's team in Gymnastics
Rowing: Women Eight


All in all, I would say that Romania is on top during these Olympics and we should not criticize them so much if they are not winning! We are between the best countries in the world and we are known in some sports! We are really good in rowing, gymastics, handball, athletics, swimming. We made history in some of these sports (the first and also last perfect 10 in Gymnastics belong to Romanians: Nadia Comaneci and Lavinia Milosevici!!!).

The only problem is that sports could be at such a high level in our country if there would be more investments made in infrastucture and also if more young people would be taken to sports by their parents! We continue to live in a country with low focus on sports in schools and with big problems of obesity which causes many illnesses!!!

Congratz for all our representatives and keeping fingers crossed for next competitions, tomorrow and until the end of the Olympics! I am proud to be Romanian and to be represented by such people to such a competition!