A look ahead at the most important sporting events this weekend
This weekend the 30th edition of the Summer Universiade continues in Naples, Italy. A total of 12,000 athletes from all over the world are competing in 18 events. Representing Romania are 86 athletes in 10 events: athletics, women's basketball, gymnastics, rugby, swimming, judo, shooting sport, fencing, table tennis and taekowondo. The opening ceremony was held on Wednesday, July 3, on San Paolo Stadium in Naples. The ending ceremony will be held on Sunday, July 14.
This weekend Sibiu plays host to a bike race enrolling 114 bikers from the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Paraguay, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, the United States, Hungary and Romania. A total of 19 teams will start the race, including the national teams of Romania and Ukraine. A team time trial was held on July 3, over a 2.5-km track crossing Sibiu's old city center. On Thursday the first stage was held, totaling 191,8 km. Justin Paroz of Switzerland won the first stage. Over the next five days of the circuit the bikers will cover a total of 690 km.
The highlight event his weekend in Romania is the Football Supercup. The match will be hosted by Ploiesti, southern Romania, and will pit Romanian champions CFR Cluj against Romanian Cup winners Viitorul Constanta. CFR Cluj has won the trophy three times, in 2009, 2010 and 2018, while Viitorul is yet to win its first trophy. Last week CFR Cluj completed its training stage in Austria with a 1-nil win over Sparta Prague of the Czech Republic. Previously, CFR won 1-nil against Russia's FC Orenburg, drew 1-all against Red Star Belgrade of Serbia, won 2-1 against NK Osijek of Croatia and 1-nil against Mlada Boleslav of the Czech Republic. In turn, FC Viitorul defeated 2-1 Cherno More Varna of Bulgaria on Wednesday. Also this summer Viitorul played several friendly matches, losing 2-3 to Olympiacos Piraeus, winning 8-nil against Coltea Brasov, 3-1 against Chindia Targoviste, 2-nil against FK Csikszereda Miercurea Ciuc and drawing 3-all against FCSB. Next week CFR Cluj starts its Champions League qualifying campaign with a match against FC Astana of Kazakhstan, counting towards the first preliminary round. The return leg will be played in Cluj on July 17.
(Translated by V. Palcu)
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