February 2026 marked another Winter Olympic Games edition completed successfully. This time in Italy, Cortina d’Ampezzo and Milan as hosts. Norway made history. Again. I won’t talk about them, as what you need to know about Norway, from which their sport approach heavily derives, can be found in several other posts on my site. I…
Category: History
Why did die the first guy who ran the… marathon? But… did he really die?
The marathon is a special athletic encounter. I would say the top off all, because of the legend that wraps everything. Many, if not all, heard about the story of a messenger that delivered the victory news to Athens, after the Athenians beat the Persians in Marathon, in 490 BCE, and after collapsed and died….
Monumental speech from professor Ștefan Antohe in May 2022
In the first half of 2022, Ștefan Antohe, a remarkable mathematics teacher from Bacău was distinguish with the well deserved title of honorary citizen of the town. Having the privilege to be myself his student, at Ferdinand I College from 2003 to 2007, I would like to translate his huge speech the best way I…
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…
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…
Cristiano Ronaldo & Lionel Messi football era comes to an end
Cristiano Ronaldo – Lionel Messi is, for sure, the most consistent rivalry in the history of world football in terms of statistics especially. I am mentioning this, because is quite hard to avoid Eras in which Maradona & Platini were playing, when Di Stefano & Puskas were on the same pitch, when Zidane & Ronaldo…
Giulești Stadium – the complete history
On 26th of March 2022 the new built Giulești Stadium is being opened in a outstanding ceremony of eight hours. It is an historic moment, without any doubt. Still, this is only the last historic moment and, of course, a beginning of a new glorious era for Rapid Bucharest, the club which plays here. The…
Who will win the UEFA Champion’s League 2021-2022?
The quarter-finals of the Champions League are about to start, and now I am curious about who you think will be the “lucky” one this year. Normally, Bayern Munich should win the trophy, but FC Liverpool is not neglectable at this moment either. Manchester City looks like a forever loser in the Champions’ League, and…
Sven Rydell, the record holder from another era
Swedish sportsmen look like having something special from the beginning of sport history. Sven Rydell is no different than that. If you check whom has the most hat-tricks from football history, this guy stands out a bit. I mean, alongside Cristiano Ronaldo, he has the most hat-tricks scored for a national team, Sweden. Truth been…
A legend from Turda, Arieșul
Almost two years past from the moment when I took a trip on Arieșuls’ valley. Yesterday, watching a friendly match between the Romanian champions, CFR Cluj and the little team from second league, Arieșul Turda, I studently remembered of that trip. But it also remind me of an achievement of this small football team, that…