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Olympic Update 18.08.2016
Olympic Update 18.08.2016

, 18.08.2016, 13:17

Wednesday brought no notable performances for the Romanian athletes participating in the Rio 2016 Olympics. They only participated in qualifying competitions or in the first round of various competitions. Unfortunately all of them have failed to qualify to the next rounds. Wrestler Alina Emilia Vuc was eliminated in the first round of the 48 kg category in the freestyle competition. She sustained an outright defeat at the score of 0-11 and missed the chance to compete in qualification round 2 for a bronze medal, as Vinesh Phogat failed to qualify to the final. Vinesh Phogat’s run at the Rio 2016 was stopped as she injured her knee against China’s Yanan Sun in the women’s freestyle 48kg quarterfinal with the score 1-2.



Athletes Claudia Bobocea and Florina Pierdevară have failed to qualify to the semifinal of the 800-meter event, being eliminated in the heats, round 1. Pierdevară ended on 7th place, the last but one place, in the first heat with 2 minutes 3 seconds and 32 hundredth while Bobocea came 6th in the second heat, with the score of 2 minutes 3 seconds and 75 hundredth. Of the 64 athletes that ended the races, the two Romanians had scores of 50 and 51 respectively.



On Thursday Romania will have only one athlete in competition. Andrei Gag will compete in the men’s shot-put qualifying round. If he qualifies, he will compete for a medal in the final.



Until Tuesday Romania has obtained four Olympic medals: gold in the women’s team epee competition, silver in the men’s doubles in tennis, bronze in the men’s weightlifting event, in the 85 kg category and bronze in the women’s eight rowing crew event.



Other news from Rio: the president of the European Olympic Committees, Irishman Patrick Hickey, was arrested over illegal Olympic ticket sales, the Brazilian police announced on Wednesday. He is accused of being involved in a scheme to sell tickets for higher than their face value.

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