Someone wrote in [personal profile] mcgillianaire 2004-01-13 05:35 pm (UTC)

Re: Ahem

Sorry my friend, if Romania had Australia's sports infrastructure we would be one of the best teams in the world in mostly anything (I rule out sports like cricket, which is not known in Romania and our main problem comes with winter sports. But we could improve even there if we had what it takes. I might say that we would not be better in rugby than Australia)

Romania holds the world record for most World Cups in handball (4), men and women as well. Another fact: England has not beat Romania in 30 years (no jokes, official number) in football, their national sport. I believe that a better structure would make Romania better in many sports including tennis, rugby, basketball, volleyball etc. Now gymnastics and football is all we have left, because of a huge lack of funds for facilities. Diana Mocanu, the Romanian swimming champion (I think she even broke a world record in Sydney 2000, I am not completely sure, but she came home with 2 or 3 gold medals) trains in an uncleaned pool of dirty water in a random city in Romania. The next year, at the World Championships she was crap... Why? No facilities to train in.

Give us your infrastructure and I guarantee better results in so many sports.

And BTW, Hari, please support my statement here that Romania has good sports, u know it, I've been bugging u with these things for almost 2 years!

Thanks and take care everyone,

Cris

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