I’m sensing a theme in this translation of an article from the Romanian publication ‘The Medal Factory’:
Adrian Stoica: Romania is not a bars specialist, neither in the women nor in the men´s competition.
The team trained by Marian Bitang and Octavian Bellu had good performances at the World Championships but the uneven bars did not allow us to make the podium. Romania finished this year´s competition in 4th place, but there are high expectations for London. …
Reporter: Where could you have done better?
Ana Porgras: Definitely on bars. We could have added that half point we lost. I can´t say we did great on the other apparatus either, but on bars mistakes very obviously visible. …
Adrian Stoica: The girls had good performances in the team final, maybe not their best ones but ok on 3 apparatus. Bars, unfortunately, is still an unsolved issue. If we take a look at the last competitions, we have basically competed with a handicap there. If you start a competition with a 2-4 point difference, you cannot make up for it. We knew this would happen, this is not a surprise. The surprise is that we have been trying to improve performance on this apparatus and we are still not there yet. …
Nadia: We could have fought for third, but the Chinese are 3-4 points ahead of us on bars, they clearly taught us a lesson there. …
Nadia … we have around 12 productive clubs in Romania while the US has around 2500. …
read the entire translation on Fangymnastics
related:
Gymnastics No Ceiling – Romania return home without medals
Bellu:
“Some drastic measures must be taken… I take full responsibility …
Check the comments on that last link. Actually, Romania has enjoyed a real upswing since the return of B and B. They mainly they need to improve Bars. That’s not new. But it indeed is Belu’s responsibility.
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