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Unfortunately, I made a mistake and took my camera with
me! A man came up asking me if I had an official permit
for it. I had to give them my camera until after the competition!
I was really angry and once again disappointed! The room
where they had it had a door out, so we simply used that!
And that really was a good decision, because we found ourselves
at the place where the gymnasts leave the hall to get the
bus! We decided to just wait and see if we could meet some
people! Several gymnasts came out, but we let them pass.
Then we saw a car coming to pick up people, which we thought
seemed a bit strange. Some minutes later we saw Ziganshina
coming out with Arkayev. Stefan wanted to get her autograph,
but Arkajev said "tomorrow". Then we noticed she
still was limping and went to that car. Once they were sitting
in it, the car changed position but still kept waiting.
We saw Arkayev opening the window, and he waved over to
Stefan and gave him a sign to come to the car and get his
autograph from Natalia! While he was there getting it, I
saw Raducan coming out! I couldn't believe my eyes when
I saw her on crutches! I didn't notice her hurting herself
on floor! So she also got into the car with Ziganshina.
Once she was sitting inside, Stefan got her autograph as
well, and she also signed a photo for me! We found that
so nice of her to still do it when she and Natalia both
had a big ice bag on their foot! So when the car left we
showed her a sign to cheer her up, and she cracked her gorgeous
smile for us! After they were gone we still kept waiting,
and after some time Petrovschi came out with Belu! So I
went up to Belu and asked him, if I could take a photo together
with Oana, and he was like "yes, of course" and
even kind of pushed her into my direction saying something
like "come on, do that photo"! That really cheered
me up! We had a really lucky time!.
 The next day, we watched women's vault
and then I suggested to go back to the door, and boy, did
I have the right feeling! Right when we arrived, the Romanian
girls were coming out of the training hall! So I first asked
Petrovschi to sign the photo I had bought. She kind of bumped
into me by accident, but was really nice and signed it!
And then I was most happy to get Andreea to take a photo
together with me! Although quite some kids came running
she stayed calm, and she really was very nice and smiled
a lot! She took the time to take pictures with several people,
and I was used as the photographer by one girl! I also took
a photo of her together with Stefan! That really made up
for the not perfect first day! When Andreea and Oana left,
I got to talk to two men who know the girls! They told me
they come from Romania! So I asked them, if it really is
true, that it's Andreea's last competition, and they told
me, that it's not, and that Andreea still plans to go on
until Athens! I really hope, that this is true!!! We then
happily went back into the hall. When the beam final started,
van den Leur and her trainer came and sat down in the row
in front of us to watch it. She refused to sign autographs
mostly, but after some time I asked her to sign a photo
for me which she did! Still I think the other gymnasts I
met were much more friendly somehow…When men's high
bar started, Stefan and I once again went back to the gym
club to talk to an official person about the disappointments
we had experienced. They said they want to sort it out and
let us know any results. Overall I still had a great time
again, but we all hope, that next year it will be back to
normal with the visit of the training and taking photos!
So I can probably look forward to next year's DTB-Cup again!...
Martina
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