UEFA Champions League 2024-2025 not only changes radically from what we knew, but it gest quite complicated to digest and understand the new shape. Does the imminent commence of European Super League in the near future be a factor? I can say this looks like to be the main key factor of the radical UEFA…
2X2 Race – the most brutal “running” experience you can have!
“2X2 Race is not for everybody”, a guy who finished it 2nd in 2022, Ionut Husariu, to be more specific said. I couldn’t agree more back then, when I have started the race, but failed in a shameful manner to make at least the first cut off time: 4 hours on Moldoveanu Peak, the highest…
Paris during the 2024 summer Olympics: report
Going to Paris during the 2024 OIympic Games is an idea that came up more than one year ago, in 2023. The original plan was to take part at the “Marathon Pour Tous”, an event in which I believed without questioning its fairness, but in the end it just proved out to offer slots mostly…
Real Madrid, a trophy room full of… football players!
With the transfer of Kylian Mbappe at Real Madrid, official announcement on 16th of July 2024, the recap of a 21st century situation resumed. After 2000, Real Madrid did its best, thru the president Florentino Perez to sign all key players world wide, on astronomical amounts of money. The initial big signature of Real Madrid…
Olympics 2024 | Julien Alfred, the new… “Usain Bolt” writes history for Saint Lucia
“When I grow up I want to be like Usain Bolt“, little Julien Alfred is known to have said more than a decade back, when she was only a child. In 2024, though, her affirmation became reality and she smashed the 100 meters final at the Olympics 2024 in Paris. Julien clocked an impressive 10.72,…
Olympics 2024 Paris | David Popovici, the swimming sensation
After the 100 meters freestyle final end, where he achieved the bronze medal, at the Olympics 2024 Paris, David Popovici, the Romanian 19 year old swimmer, first ever male swimming Olympic champion for this country burst out at the interview, telling a painful truth, few speak about. Basically, David reinforced the fact that in Romania…
EURO 2024 – the story of fading football, detailed analysis
EURO 2024 was a very expected football tournament, not only on its continent, obviously Europe, but worldwide. It is true that Copa America developed in the same time, but these are two competitions which purely cannot match. Even if the latest had its first edition long before Coupe of Europe (as EURO was called when…
The bear Romanian problem – perfect mirror of the society
Romania has a very “nice” particularity, as a European Union country, meaning that you have great chances to be either eaten by a stray dog in the middle of Bucharest, or maybe other town, or by… a bear! It happened recently, and it keeps happening for some time. I will focus now on the bear…
Lavaredo Ultra Trail 2024 – the story of a mighty experience
Lavaredo Ultra Trail was on the wish list for quite long, and in 2024 the time for the participation came, as I was successfully extracted at the ballot. A procedure that becomes more frequent at such competitions, ones of the most popular in the world, with limited slots available. Being in the mountain side, it…
Madeira, the running island you must see! – two weeks guide
“Machico, the world capital of trail running”, is written somewhere at a stand at the MIUT finish line. It might be a slight exaggeration, but it is not far from truth. In Funchal, for example, I saw the most runners on square meter from all the places I have visited in my life, and I…