Monday, May 11, 2009

Lipa - "I don't know whether Dragulescu will return to the top"

CS Dynamo president, Elisabeth Lipa, said on Monday that she doesn't know whether Dragulescu will be able to return to the highest level in gymnastics, but stated that she went through such times and succeeded in the end in winning an Olympic medal.

"It's hard to tell if Marian will be back up there where he used to be. We can't say that now. No one believed in me when I returned to rowing, but I managed to win an Olympic medal. Now everything depends on him. Marian is at an age where it is still possible to perform at a high level, but we'll have to see what happens. I know he has health problems, and it remains to be seen how he will deal with them," said Elisabeth Lipa.

Lipa said that Dragulescu made the decision to return to gymnastics when after he was asked to decide if he wanted to act as the club coach or return to gymnastics competing. "We talked to him, because our club listed him under the sport, and he was already an active coach. I asked him to think well and decide what to do next. After two days he came and said that he would resume training and continue competing. If he manages to make the performance standard, it will be excellent, and if not, there will be no problem.," she added.

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