The Winners: Popovici Delivers On Promise With No 'Pressure' From Parents
In a series of articles and related features, SOS takes a look at the 14 nations, athletes and coaches who celebrated at least one gold in the Paris 2024 pool. Today: Romania
The Winners is the SOS Series that recalls the Paris 2024 campaigns of the 14 nations that left the French capital with at least one gold medal in the pool.
Today: 14th - Romania.
Courtesy of David Popovici and his coach Adrian Radulescu, not to mention the swimmer's parents and the approach writ large in the letter below translated from the original published in a home newspaper, Romania claimed gold and bronze in the pool.
At the foot of this file, subscribers will find an archive article added to the SOS+ library. It's from the European Championships in Rome 2022, the season that witnessed a 46.86 World record and a sub-1:43 200m freestyle.
A couple of interviews, a ton of insight.
What Popovici and coach Radulescu said back in 2022 resonates not only with his performances in Paris but what the swimmer's father, Mihai Popovici, had to tell Sport in Romania's Dumitru Graur after his son had an Olympic gold medal in his pantheon.
Paris 2024:
A stirring note every parent could benefit from - by Mihai Popovici - follows... plus, our archive of insight into Popovici's development
