The World of Peace and Harmony: February 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DANIELA SOFRONIE

On February 10th 2007, Saturday, in Romania, Anthem Olympic Gymnastics Team Gold Medalist, Daniela Sofronie celebrated her birthday, 2 days before her birthday (February 12th 2007). It was a lovely and wonderful party.

Daniela Sofronie invited our NadiaVideoClips Club Moderator, Magda Petrescu, to join her birthday party. Magda gave Daniela Sofronie a gift from our NadiaVideoClips Club to her, sending wishes from our club to Daniela Sofronie.

Thank you to Magda Petrescu for sharing these great photos.

Our club home page is at http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/NadiaVideoClips/

This news is from Romanian newspaper Cuget Liber 12.02.2007. The news can be seen in pdf form at this link http://www.cugetliber.ro/ziar/pag%2008.pdf. Thank you Vali Nas for sharing this great news in English language translation.

Thank you to Magda Perescu for helping to translate below news into English.

Telegraf 12.02.2007

Celebration for the former Olympic champion Daniela SofronieThe former gymnast , Daniela Sofronie , Olympic champion with the team in Athens 2004 , is 19 yo today. She celebrated her birthday on Saturday at her parent's house together with the relatives and few friends. Unlike the past years when the celebration found her always at Deva's cantonment, the whipped cream fight – now a custom among the gymnasts - missed this time. Among other gifts , Daniela had a wonderful surprise fm a hardcore fan . Magda Petrescu accompanied by her daughter, Alexandra , offerd her a collage of photos with Daniela in different situations from the fanclub "NadiaVideoclips" side , of whose president is Mai Loon fm Malaysia. The board included a greeting :"NadiaVideoclips club wishes you a Happy Birthday". The fan took a lot of pictures that are to be posted soon on the club's site.Pupil in the 12th grade of the Sport High School, Daniela has already planned her goals for the next period of time ; graduating the high-school exam with a high score and then passing the examinations of 2 Universities , the Sport one and The Police Academy. "Studies are now my priority , I am not thinking of anything else." confessed the former gymnasts who is working in her spare time at the Constanta County Sport Authority.

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Original Romanian news can be found at
http://www.telegrafonline.ro/1171231200/articol/20660/sarbatoare_pentru_fosta_campioana_olimpica_daniela_sofronie.html

Sărbătoare pentru fosta campioană olimpică Daniela Sofronie
Ionut COMAN (ionut.coman@telegrafonline.ro)
Daniela Sofronie a putut mînca fără grijă din tortul primit de ziua sa
Fosta gimnastă Daniela Sofronie, campioană olimpică împreună cu echipa României, la Atena în 2004, împlineşte astăzi 19 ani. Constănţeanca şi-a sărbătorit ziua de naştere sîmbătă, la casa părintească împreună cu rudele şi cîţiva prieteni. Faţă de anii trecuţi, cînd această sărbătoare a găsit-o mai mereu în cantonamentul de la Deva, a lipsit bătaia cu frişcă, devenită deja un obicei între gimnaste. Printre numeroasele cadouri, Daniela a avut parte de o frumoasă surpriză din partea unor admiratoare înfocate. Magda Petrescu, însoţită de fiica sa Alexandra, i-a oferit din partea fanilor clubului "Nadia Videoclips", a cărui preşedintă este Mai Loon, din Malaesia, un tablou cuprinzând un colaj de poze, în care gimnasta Daniela Sofronie era surprinsă în diverse ipostaze. Tabloul era completat de o urare: "Nadia Videoclips Club îţi urează La Mulţi ani!". Admiratoarea a realizat o mulţime de fotografii, urmînd ca în cel mai scurt timp să le posteze pe siteul clubului.

\nElevă în clasa a XII-a la Liceul cu Program Sportiv "Nicolae Rotaru", Daniela şi-a fixat obiectivele pentru următoarea perioadă, absolvirea examenului de bacalaureat cu note mari, apoi înscrierea la două facultăţi, IEFS şi Academia de Poliţie. "Cartea are acum prioritate, nu mă mai gîndesc la nimic altceva", a mărturisit fosta gimnastă, care lucrează în timpul liber la DSJ Constanţa.

Elevă în clasa a XII-a la Liceul cu Program Sportiv "Nicolae Rotaru", Daniela şi-a fixat obiectivele pentru următoarea perioadă, absolvirea examenului de bacalaureat cu note mari, apoi înscrierea la două facultăţi, IEFS şi Academia de Poliţie. "Cartea are acum prioritate, nu mă mai gîndesc la nimic altceva", a mărturisit fosta gimnastă, care lucrează în timpul liber la DSJ Constanţa.

Photo of Daniela Sofronie happily accepted her birthday gift.

Daniela Sofronie photographed with Magda Petrescu

Special Thanks to Andreea Raducan

for sharing these great photos

with Nadia Comaneci Fans Club

(NadiaVideoClips Club at this link

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/NadiaVideoClips/)

Dear Friends,

Andreea Raducan has shared these 2 language versions of her Thank You messages to all her fans! Andreea Raducan has told me to share them with you all, she said them from the bottom of her heart to everyone of you whom had supported her cause in getting back her Olympic AA GOLD Medal.

They are part of what she said in her interview with TV Sport and she had the video specially uploaded in You Tube to share with all of you.

Please take a look at links below-

Her Romanian language thank you message at this link of You Tube.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=K2V_snS9PtY

Her excellent English language thank you message at this link of You Tube.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lxOgNDxFuCY

Thank you to everyone of you whom had landed your support to Andreea Raducan!

Have A Great Week!

Mai Loon

Photos from 2000 Sydney Olympics