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The city council has spoken: Bucharest will not be hosting the 2020 Olympic Games

by Craig Turp December 17, 2010 Bucharest

 You have to love ambition. And Bucharest’s Mayor Sorin Oprescu has plenty of ambition. He earlier this week announced his desire to see Bucharest host the Olympic Games in 2020, bless him. Today, Bucharest City Council decided hosting the Olympic Games was not a priority, and voted Oprescu’s idea down. All very predictable. What we [...]

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CFR Cluj: Where violence is the manager’s job

by Craig Turp November 25, 2010 Romania

 CFR Cluj, Romanian football champions two out of the past three years (for what that’s worth) will be looking for a new manager tomorrow. Why? Because they just sacked the last one. For doing this on Tuesday night* As we have always said, if you are going to go beserk, do it properly. *Anyone who [...]

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Elena Udrea boxes clever. Or does she?

by Craig Turp November 17, 2010 Romania

 After yesterday declaring that she ‘would not rule out’ running for mayor of Bucharest in 2012 (you read it here first), Romania’s Minister of Tourism Elena Udrea signed up local boxer Lucian Bute (no, we hadn’t heard of him either, but apparently he holds one of the many and increasingly meaningless boxing world titles) to [...]

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Crap newspapers, now in 3D

by Craig Turp September 13, 2010 Bucharest

 We are not huge fans of 3D films. We know they are all the rage, but we can’t help thinking that they are just a bit of a waste of time. By making a film in 3D you are basically admitting that the film is not good enough to carry its audience on its merits [...]

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Liverpool are coming to Bucharest, again

by Craig Turp August 27, 2010 Bucharest

 Again. Though Liverpool fans probably know Bucharest rather well these days, we’ve still prepared a quick guide to the city for them ahead of their match against Steaua. Find it here. View Steaua Bucharest v Liverpool in a larger map

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In Romania, handball is not a minority sport

by Craig Turp April 30, 2010 Bucharest

 With apologies for the ‘Bears in woods defecation scenario’-style headline, it was a bad day in sub-editor city… In Britain, there are basically three team sports that matter: football, cricket and rugby union. In a list of the country’s top five team sports (rated according to their popularity) a distant fourth would probably come rugby [...]

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Bucharest In Your Pocket 63

by Craig Turp February 9, 2010 Bucharest

 Is out and about on the city’s streets. Under a pile of snow, probably. But panic not! You can avoid the snow and read it from the comfort of your desktop by downloading a PDF copy right here. (We fixed the mistake on the cover – can you spot it? – before it went to [...]

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