1.   But Romanian national team officials said on Thursday that they would not do that.

2.   Her injury means the Romanian team will enter competition with six gymnasts instead of the seven that their rivals will have available.

3.   The Romanian team has finished among the top three for five of the last seven years.

4.   Panathinaikos turned to Zajec when negotiations with Romanian national team coach Anghel Iordanescu collapsed earlier this week.

5.   Brinza was Sunday named in a revamped Romanian team but will need to pass a fitness test.

6.   But on Saturday, although playing aggressively, the Macedonians failed to resist the more experienced Romanian team.

7.   But they also had the advantage of facing weaker opponents, George Cosac and Andrei Pavel, numbers three and four on the Romanian team.

8.   But the Romanian team, which had been content to sit on their opening leg victory until the Karlsruhe outburst, went on the attack.

9.   Despite the statistical edge, the Romanian team, whose place in the elite World Group will also depends on winning the match, remained optimistic.

10.   He failed to score any goals in the three first-round games, and announced he would retire from the Romanian national team after France.