Category: sport

Winter

Even if some may try to deny that, the winter is here and in full force.

winter

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Runner

Just run. Run, run, run.

runner

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The little biker that could

The little biker could jump over the obstacle. Unfortunately, he didn’t, this was his most aggressive stance. Maybe next time…

little biker that could

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Ghosts run

Actually it was called Midnight Run and it happened 1-2 hours before the midnight, still some ghosts seems to managed to get there.

ghosts run

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Dark chocolate

Some people have a passion for dark chocolate, those pics may fit their taste.

dark chocolate
dark chocolate

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Man versus balloon

An epic confrontation, the tiny man versus the huge balloon. In the end only one will prevail.

balloon

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Last but not the least?

This happens all the time: I had to send pictures for an exhibition, the rule was “up to three”, the first and second choices were easy picks, but to make the number and maximize my chances, I picked a third one, an image from the 2012 Bucharest marathon. Of course, the jury selected the third one, which was, in my opinion, the least representative. But as said above, this is not unexpected, it happens all the time. More on the exhibition near the end of the next week.

marathon

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Runaway bride

Actually she likes to run and got married around the marathon, we are not in a romantic comedy or such.

runaway bride

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Marathon

I am not good ar running on long distance, I used to be better at speed on short distance, but lost my training for that too. Well, that is no excuse to miss the Bucharest International Marathon, an awesome photography opportunity. It was the 5th edition, but the first time for me: is a big event, it has good athletes, like this group that was leading the race, or like the guy who followed them or the first girl:

marathon
marathon
marathon

Along with the athletes, many other people participated, in fact there were more races at the same time: the marathon, the half-marathon, the relay-marathon, the disabled people race and the popular cross:

marathon
marathon
marathon

And everybody was “running”, even those you would have expected the less:

marathon
marathon
marathon

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Football

I avoided as much as possible watching the UEFA 2012 tournament, but pretty much against my will I was stuck in front of a TV set for the most part of the final (from the rest, I didn’t see even a total of five minutes). I saw all the goals and the final score, and what can I say, remembering the times when I used to be into football, a 4-0 is humiliating for the Italian team, Spain made them look like little girls… like the girl below would have been a valuable addition of their team.

football

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Romanian chicas

When asked for some TV news show which Romanian food he likes the best, one of the Spanish supporters being here for the big final answered “the girls”. If you know what he meant…

final
final

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Final/Fans/Football

Yesterday evening Bucharest hosted the Europa League final, a match between two Spanish teams, Atletico Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, so the old city (the Lipscani area) was practically under invasion by happy people singing, dancing, screaming and drinking. Is hard to say which is which, since both teams have the same colors: red and white stripes (Bilbao may have also a bit of green, Madrid a bit of blue).

supporters
supporters
supporters
supporters
supporters
supporters

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SMAEB 2012: the stunts

A must for a motorbike show are the stunts and SMAEB 2012 had some of those too, both with climbind and jumping and the obligatory fire. The crowd appears to enjoy them, the photographers too.

SMAEB
SMAEB

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Cricket

As a kid, I spend a lot of time outside, playing football (soccer) with my friends, as all Romanian kids used to do in the pre-computing era. Going to India I saw (well, this was expected) all the kids playing cricket, a game I saw only in films or books, but I knew is their national game, I don’t know the rules but it seems similar with the American baseball (of which rules I don’t know either, nor care to learn). So the field at the village border was filled with those kids playing.

cricket
cricket

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Basketball

The kids are playing basketball in the back of a community center in Tîrgoviște… so many years ago I used to play the game (both basketball and football) in the court of the school in my neighborhood… fun times! In fact what we needed was a ball, a little open space and some play companions.

basketball basketball

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