Romanian Olympic official praises Sochi organization
新华社
2014/02/07
Romania's winter Olympic team have already started training in Sochi, Russia, enjoying the excellent conditions provided by the organizers, according to Romania's Olympic Sports Committee (COSR).
"Our hosts in Russia have extended us a great welcome. Accommodation and meals are the best, the sports facilities are impeccable and organization is impressive," COSR Secretary General Ioan Dobrescu was quoted as saying by official Agerpres news agency on Thursday.
"I do not know why the press is circulating all kinds of false stories," the official wondered, adding that for the time being, "the Sochi Olympic Games are the best so far held."
Romania's Olympic team, made up of 24 athletes, left Bucharest on Sunday for participating in the 22nd Winter Olympic Games. They will compete in eight of the 15 sport disciplines scheduled at these Olympics: alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, biathlon, ski jumping, figure skating, bobsled, luge and skeleton.
As already announced, biathlete Eva Tofalvy, who takes part in the Olympic Games for the fifth time, will bear the Romanian flag at the opening ceremony of the Games.
COSR Chairman Octavian Morariu anticipated that the national athletes would get the best results in bobsledding, sledding and skeleton on the first 10-15 places.
"A Romanian sportsman or woman taking one of the first 10 places would be like a gold medal to us and their taking one of the first 20 places would be a quite extraordinary performance if we consider how things are currently in winter sports in Romania," said Ioan Dobrescu.
Romania took part in almost all Winter Olympic Games, except for the first ones in 1924 and the ones in 1960. In the 1968 competition at Grenoble, France, Romania won the bronze medal in the men's two-men bobsled event, its only medal in the history of its participating in the Winter Olympic Games.
"Our hosts in Russia have extended us a great welcome. Accommodation and meals are the best, the sports facilities are impeccable and organization is impressive," COSR Secretary General Ioan Dobrescu was quoted as saying by official Agerpres news agency on Thursday.
"I do not know why the press is circulating all kinds of false stories," the official wondered, adding that for the time being, "the Sochi Olympic Games are the best so far held."
Romania's Olympic team, made up of 24 athletes, left Bucharest on Sunday for participating in the 22nd Winter Olympic Games. They will compete in eight of the 15 sport disciplines scheduled at these Olympics: alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, biathlon, ski jumping, figure skating, bobsled, luge and skeleton.
As already announced, biathlete Eva Tofalvy, who takes part in the Olympic Games for the fifth time, will bear the Romanian flag at the opening ceremony of the Games.
COSR Chairman Octavian Morariu anticipated that the national athletes would get the best results in bobsledding, sledding and skeleton on the first 10-15 places.
"A Romanian sportsman or woman taking one of the first 10 places would be like a gold medal to us and their taking one of the first 20 places would be a quite extraordinary performance if we consider how things are currently in winter sports in Romania," said Ioan Dobrescu.
Romania took part in almost all Winter Olympic Games, except for the first ones in 1924 and the ones in 1960. In the 1968 competition at Grenoble, France, Romania won the bronze medal in the men's two-men bobsled event, its only medal in the history of its participating in the Winter Olympic Games.