VIDEO. As soon as he got off the plane, David Popovici had something to say about the TVR commentator of the World Swimming Championships: “Hearing the resumption how the races comment on me and I will wonder if I will win”
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David Popovici returned to Romania on Sunday evening, with the two gold medals obtained at the Singapore World Swimming Championships. Expected by hundreds of people, Popovici made a friendly joke that targeted TVR commentator Emil Hossu-Longin.
Swimmer David Popovici, double world champion in Singapore (100 m free and 200 m free), said on his return to the country, on Sunday evening, at Otopeni Airport, that he feels proud of his achievements and denied the rumor about a possible withdrawal
“It was a whole experience for both of them, that is, it was a contest for me, I would say in a word, revealing, and in which I managed to self-deny a lot. I still love swimming, I do I withdraw.
“More athletes should talk about the times when they also doubted their own forces.”
The double world champion explained the moment of work, before the World Cup, when he was about to give up the Singapore competition: “I am very proud of myself and much more proud, than the medals and the times, I am that, although I wanted to give up and I was so close to giving up my family, I found my family To continue to prove that it is ok and that I can and may not doubt so much. tell you how you went over it. I am a sportsman, but at the end of the day I am a man. Last year it was a very difficult year, but also successful, which came to the pack with a new set of challenges, which no one seems to me. No one told me how hard it will be and when it will work well, which is a bit weird. You would say that it has nothing to happen. But it was a very difficult year for me, in which it was hard for me to find my motivation, after the greatest success of my life in Paris, to become an Olympic champion. And finally, I think I came to an answer. I can say that a stone from my heart was somehow, in the sense that I am no longer interested in the titles. Or I am simply interested in swimming as well and as fast as I can. And as if easy, I am moving to that pleasure of the child David Popovici, whom I had when I was little, abstracting from all the bright medals. ”
A joke with Emil Hossu-Longin
Popovici also made a joke that targeted the TVR commentator of Singapore, Emil Hossu-Longin.
“Where is Emil? I would like to honor Emil Hossu-Longin because the way he comments on makes me wonder, when I see them again,” Well, I will win? What will I do? Will I recover? “.
