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…
Tag: România
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…
The flag – interesting facts about some countries
There are almost 200 independent states in the world, and each one has or should have a different flag. Most are quite straight forward, in spite can have a separate meaning. Rectangular, a couple of colors, and that is it. But I bet you know there are some special flags and you might wonder why….
Piatra Craiului Marathon, once again: the experience
Piatra Craiului Marathon is the oldest continuous running event organized in Romania, as I am aware of, at least. Dated back in 2006, in 2023 it had registered its 16th edition, because the ones from 2020 and 2021 were cancelled, mostly because of the pandemic. Now, about this one, I’ve heard around 2018 and I…
Why a “poor” country like Romania needs a sports team like CSM Bucharest
I am not placing “poor” into quotes by accident, because it is like a metaphor for Romania. We are not, literally speaking, a poor country. No, not at all. We have a lot of resources and pretty much of everything, the biggest problem being the human quality of its inhabitants and this makes Romania really…
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…
Romania – Finland 1-0, Giulești: when a stadium wins you a game
Being a Romanian and being soooo familiar with everything that is happening in this country’s football, I was pretty sure that Romania – Finland will end up in a heavy defeat, for the Nordics. What I did really underestimate was the atmosphere from Giulești, the newly rebuilt Rapid’s stadium. This is the exact purpose for…
Răzvan Lucescu, the vice-president goalkeeper
Now, Răzvan Lucescu, is the manager of Romanian national football team, but he used to train with great success Rapid Bucharest. More than that, Lucescu even played a full season for the club from Giulești. It is well known that Răzvan is a big supporter of Rapid and the fans of the club love him…
What happened in 1967?
11 June 1967 it’s a day that all football fans around Romania know very well. Particularly, those of Rapid Bucharest. That date marked the first title in the history of the team from Giulești and one of the only three such trophies that Rapid achieved so far. 1967, a year to remember! I don’t want…