Gymnastics: Romania's Ponor Basks in Double Glory
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Catalina Ponor displayed her growing  maturity when she majestically outclassed her opponents to win  two gold medals in the Athens Olympics Monday.
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Bucharest: Opposition candidate Traian Basescu won Romania&#39;s hotly-contested presidential election dominated by the country&#39;s EU membership bid, but the centre-right mayor of Bucharest on Monday faced the arduous task of trying to form a government from a
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BUCHAREST, Romania -- Rica Neaga and Cristian Ciocoiu scored in the first half as Steaua Bucharest held on to beat Besiktas 2-1 in a hard-fought UEFA Cup tie to go top of Group B on Thursday.
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Jose Acasuso of Argentina captured the Romania Open on Sunday with a 6-3, 6-0 rout of fourth-seeded Igor Andreev of Russia.
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Opposition candidate Traian Basescu won Romania's hotly-contested presidential election dominated by the country's EU membership bid, but the centre-right mayor of Bucharest faced the arduous task of trying to form a government from a fragmented parliamentary base.
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The Romanian tandem of Constanta Burcica and Angela Alupei rowed back from a two-second deficit in the last half of their 2,000-meter race to Sunday to defend their title.
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The Chinese powered their way to another men's gymnastics world championship Thursday. Can anyone catch them in time for the Olympics in Beijing? Hardly looked like it with the way they performed and everyone else stumbled.
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The Spaniard didnât quite repeat last yearâs achievement, but his Hungarian podium left him satisfied all the same.
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STUTTGART, Germany  -- It's not often gymnasts get curtain calls in qualifying at the world gymnastics championships. It's not often gymnasts blow away the competition like China did.
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The American men answered their critics who said they were lucky to qualify for the Beijing Olympics by finishing fourth yesterday at the world gymnastics championships in Stuttgart, Germany. If not for two falls off the high bar, the United States would have been the bronze medalist. China breezed to its third consecutive title â and seventh in the past eight world championships â by an almost 5-point margin. Japan took the silver and Germany the bronze, 1.25 points ahead of the Americans.
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Daniela Sofronie displayed all her  athleticism to edge Romania ahead of the United States in the  Olympic women's gymnastics team qualifying Sunday.
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Bouncing back from mistakes Wednesday that would have cost a great team the gold medal on most days, the Americans finished with two of the most dazzling routines of the entire competition to clinch their second title at the world gymnastics championships.
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Romania e Bulgaria hanno pareggiato 2-2 (1-0) in un incontro valido per le qualificazioni agli Europ...
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ATHENS, Greece -- Three-time world champion Zsuzsanna Voros of Hungary won the gold medal in the women&#39;s modern pentathlon. Voros had a 41-second head start on her nearest rival entering the final 3-kilometer
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ATHENS Members of the US women&#39;s gymnastics team sat with their backs against the gym wall, silent and stunned, as they watched their Romanian counterparts mesmerize the crowd.
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Romania&#39;s centrist opposition leader Traian Basescu has scored an upset victory in a presidential race against leftist Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, partial official results show.
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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 shook Romania late Wednesday, the Earth Physics Institute said. Authorities said there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.