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Cristina Neagu’s International Career Ends in the Champions’ League Quarter-Finals

If you also include the 2019-2020 edition, which was canceled at that stage, CSM Bucharest‘s run in the EHF Women’s Champions’ League ends in the quarter-finals for the seventh time in a row… And this comes at the hands of Team Esbjerg for the third time in four seasons, last week’s first leg actually being […]

No, We Shouldn’t Have Three Teams in the EHF Women’s Champions’ League…

Last month, I was saying that, with CSM Bucharest not even taking it a little easy when losing to Gloria Bistrita would have also sent Gloria through without affecting them in any way, Rapid also scraping through, albeit only thanks to Vipers going bankrupt, and SCM Ramnicu Valcea and Dunarea Braila winning their respective groups […]

Norwegian Cheating Harms All Ski Jumpers

I guess it was only a matter of time until somebody did it, but it surprises me that it was the Norwegian team who cheated by manipulating their ski jumping equipment. Admittedly, it’s one of the biggest and most organized teams, so they were able to pull it off, and they’re also in the fight […]

Should Still Have Three Teams in the EHF Women’s Champions’ League, Right?

Romania had three teams in this season’s EHF Women’s Champions’ League but, seeing as this is not a matter of coefficients or even qualifying rounds, at the moment it’s still pretty much anyone’s guess whether this will continue to be the case next season. If CSM Bucharest, who had nothing to play for anymore, remaining […]

After 11 Months of Struggle, Halep Admits the Inevitable

Even if I was glad to have apparently been proven wrong when she was allowed to compete again, I guess I can say that my initial assessment that Halep’s ban will mark the end of the career was, in the end, correct, just that it took her 11 months of struggle, plagued by injuries that […]