When coming about marathon, energies are raising more and more as years pass. A short history about its debut, was written here. Since I ran a few, I am very well positioned to understand and to express what a marathon means. But what does it means from the eyes of the greatest? Of course, I…
Category: Champions
Boston Marathon 2023, 127th edition – Chebet, Kipchoge & top 10 final results
Eliud Kipchoge was set to win the Boston Marathon for the first time, at his first attendance. Even he was the huge favorite, alongside many other great East-African mostly runners, the guy who is considered the greatest of all time in terms of Marathon running failed this time. Having the only unofficial still, but existing…
1 Decembrie Marathon 2022, a podium after three years and a PB
It starts to rain, and the temperature is almost 0ºC, but the real feel even lower, as the wind blows. Even though I like to look good in pictures, this time I need to wear ticker clothes and to cover my head. I am not the best in terms of appearance, but I am ready….
World Champion stories: Denisa Dragomir, mountain trail running
Denisa Dragomir is a mountain runner, a sky runner. I know this sport is not as many others and it doesn’t grow much interest, but this has nothing to do necessary with the complexity or its level. It is simply because fewer understand and have patience with this kind of sport. The context is that…
Cristi Săpunaru
The Romanian football is rotten from one side to another. The press, the sports people, everybody. Or, OK, most of them. In principle, if you are decent you don’t appear more than a couple of times / year at the television. And I am generous. I am not referring to football players here or important…
David Popovici – the truth about a World Champion in Romania
Stop! This is the perfect word for the general Romanian behavior from the last few days of June. Driven by only a few minutes, 19 million people rediscovered, without deserving, how it is to have a top sportsman: David Popovici. We like sport only when we see results, regardless of the sport type. A disgrace,…
Stade de France, the other perspective: Champions League final 2022, Liverpool – Real Madrid
Six weeks before the Champions League 2022 final, FC Liverpool – Real Madrid, I’ve stepped on Stade de France, Saint-Denis, for Spartan Stadion. The experience, here. Now, the big match is about to be played. Everybody expected to have a pure English final, but the proverbial luck of Real Madrid played, once more, a big…
Alexandru Corneschi, the making of an Olympic qualifying time
The sport in Romania is below sea level and when it comes to athletic it is below the ocean floor. Believe me. Something very clear was explained by Alexandru Corneschi in this article. I know, it is in Romanian, but you can always use Google translate, because the topics are the same in every country…
Aleksandr Sorokin, the king of long distance very fast running
How should it be to run 100 kilometers at a 3:39 minutes / kilometer pace…? Well, ask Aleksandr Sorokin, he just beat the world record in the 100 kilometer run. In slightly over 6 hours and 5 minutes, the Lithuanian trashed the former World Record. Not only did he do that, but he managed to…
CR807: Cristiano Ronaldo became the best all time football top scorer
Cristiano Ronaldo and a huge achievement! “Who had believe me that I have scored five times more than the great Pele?”, stated, around 2001 the great Josef Bican when questioned that some reports showed he scored more than 5.000. It is hard to believe though and it is hard to believe also that Pele did…