{"id":115240,"date":"2019-03-15T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/sports-weekend-128-115240.html"},"modified":"2024-02-19T10:12:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T08:12:41","slug":"sports-weekend-128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/sports-weekend-128-id115240.html","title":{"rendered":"Sports Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Romania&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nnational rugby team travels to Brussels for a fixture against the national team&#13;<br \/>\nof Belgium. The match due on Sunday counts towards the last round of the&#13;<br \/>\nEuropean Rugby Champions Cup. Georgia has emerged as winner of the tournament&#13;<br \/>\nalready. Romania is 4th-placed and still has the opportunity to move&#13;<br \/>\nup a notch in the final rankings.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In the 10th-round&#13;<br \/>\nof the Champions League in water polo, Romanian champions Steaua Bucharest will&#13;<br \/>\nplay an away group A match against Serbian opponents Crvena Zvezda. Steaua and&#13;<br \/>\nZvezda are 7th and 8th-placed, respectively, in the&#13;<br \/>\neight-team group, the last-but-one and the last position in a group headed by the&#13;<br \/>\nItalian team Pro Recco. Steaua Bucharest has only one win on its record sheet, namely&#13;<br \/>\nan 8-3 victory against Crvena Zvezda, a win they grabbed in the previous round&#13;<br \/>\nin Bucharest. The latter team has zero points on its record sheet. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Now its news&#13;<br \/>\nfrom dancesport.  Some 1,500 athletes&#13;<br \/>\nfrom 24 countries are in Bucharest this weekend for a Great Slam round, as part&#13;<br \/>\nof the Dancemasters competition. Dancesport has been gaining ground in Romania&#13;<br \/>\nin recent years, with Romanian dancers reaching as far as the final in&#13;<br \/>\nworld-level competitions. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Over March 14 -&#13;<br \/>\n17, the president of the Romanian Cycling Federation Eduard Novak takes part in&#13;<br \/>\nthe Para-cycling Track World Championships in the Dutch town of Appeldoorn. Novak&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nset objective is to walk home with a medal. 42-year old Novak is the only&#13;<br \/>\nParalympics champion in Romanian cycling. Novak will compete in four events:&#13;<br \/>\n4-kilometer track, 1-kilometer individual, scratch and omnium. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>We go out with&#13;<br \/>\nnews from football.  Matches will be played&#13;<br \/>\ncounting towards the 2nd round of the irregular season of League One&#13;<br \/>\nchampionship. In Group 1 on Friday, Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe face CSU Craiova,&#13;<br \/>\nwhile on Saturday, Viitorul Constanta takes on CFR Cluj. On Sunday, also in&#13;<br \/>\nGroup 1, Astra Giurgiu is up against FCSB. In Group 2 on Saturday, Dunarea&#13;<br \/>\nCalarasi faces Politehnica Iasi, while on Sunday, Gaz Metan Medias faces Dinamo&#13;<br \/>\nBucharest. The round&#8217;s last matches are to be played on Monday, with Concordia&#13;<br \/>\nChiajna pitted against FC Hermannstadt and FC Voluntari facing FC Botosani. CFR&#13;<br \/>\nCluj are top of the table, with 30 points, followed by CSU Craiova with 26 and&#13;<br \/>\nFCSB, with 25 points.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest from rugby, water polo, dancesport,  cycling and football<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":118610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40940],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-115240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sports Weekend - Radio Romania International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/sports-weekend-128-id115240.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sports Weekend - 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