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…
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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…
Rugby World Cup – the change from 2027 has been announced!
A few days ahead the big final, the eternal classic New Zealand – South Africa, that will seal once more the Rugby World Cup title outside Europe, against all odds in 2023, a major announcement has been made: from 2027, the competition, held then in Australia, will not have 20 nations participating anymore, but 24!…
Rugby World Cup 2023, France edition – quarter finals
The Rugby World Cup 2023, held in France ended its group matches and there are some very interesting clashes in the quarter finals. By far, the biggest surprise of the competition was the progression of Fiji ahead of Australia, team which they beat in a spectacular game. However, the qualification of Fiji in the quarters…
What is the legacy of the FIFA World Cup 2022 from Qatar?
Hard question: what should be the legacy of the latest World Cup, the 2022 Qatar competition? It is a serious debate, and it cannot be resumed in a couple of words, so this is why I have waited for some time to pass to assess and order my thoughts as better as I could to…
World Cup 2022: we have all the qualified teams. Which are the favorites?
In mid June, the last three qualified teams to the World Cup 2022 were found out. Wales beat Ukraine, after the Ukrainians put out Scotland, Australia kicked out United Arab Emirates and Peru – at penalty kicks – and last, but not least Costa Rica beat New Zeeland to gain the last spot. Now, the…
10 things you must do in Paris, that nobody knows about
10 things you must do in Paris, explained by me below! š Liking to run and participate in sporting events in all Europe has more benefits than you think. I mean you manage to see a lot of new places, you end up having great experiences and can share these eternal memories with others. Today,…
Paris, the happy city of sun and well being
I didn’t fly for almost two years because of the pandemic. Lucky me, my firstĀ airborneĀ trip from 2022 happened in Paris. Not really a city I ever plan to visit, not so tempting for me, but thanks to the unique Spartan Stadium event I’ve decided to book aĀ visitĀ there, sinceĀ beginning of 2020. As said, it got postponed…
Spartan Stadium Paris (Saint-Denis, Stade de France) 2022: different experience
My participation to Spartan Race events started in August 2019 and especially in 2020 I’ve attended several Sprint, Super, Beast, Honor and even Hurricane Heat events all around Central Europe, in my home country, Romania, but also in Slovakia, Czech Republic and Slovakia. From that same year I’ve aimed the yellow medal of Spartan Stadion,…