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…

Doping in sports: facts versus reality in 2022

Does doping really exist in 2022, in top sports? Well, I don’t want to pretend that I know this for a fact, but after Simona Halep’s positive test I’ve did some research and reread the article from Spiegel – part of Football Leaks – that promoted some very strange doping-related things from the Real Madrid,…

10 things to help you discover Prague in a different way!

Three times to Prague and still cannot get enough! Prague is popular among tourist and to give extra tips, something you cannot find elsewhere is very hard. Regardless, I am pushing my luck and will present a 10 things-list you ought to do while in the beautiful capital city of Czech Republic, because I am…

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…

2X2 Race: the dream, the failure, the obsession, the focus

Us runners are aiming higher and higher because we have quite of a big ego that need to be fed. Believe me. If any runner says he’s not running for him at least at a level, mostly the main level, then he’s lying. For me, 2X2 Race was a dream from one year ago or…

10 things to do in Apulia, Italy – lovely Bari!

When we decided to have a summer vacation we chose Bari because of several factors, but mostly because it is not highly promoted in Romania so we knew it is very unlikely to get Romanian flavors there… And it was the case, though, as only a few citizens from our country did the same and…

Rareș Ilie, the Romanian prodigy – complete portrait

I have talked and wrote many times about Rareș Ilie long before the Romanian “press” – you’ll find later on that the brackets are really needed – heard of him, let alone see his qualities. Most of them, anyway, didn’t see any quality in this guy. But Nice, number 5 in 2021-2022 Ligue 1 saw…

I had a dream! To complete a Spartan Trifecta in one Weekend

It was never easy, in my mind, to go all in for any Spartan Race. Not at the beginning, in 2019, neither when I attended my first Beast in Slovakia back in 2020. My first Hurricane Heat or my first Trifecta, stretched through one single year. In 2021 followed the first Mountain Beast, at Cheile…