Alina Rotaru-Cottmann, one of the hopes of the Romanian delegation at the Olympic Games, spoke about it in a big interview given to Gazeta Sporturilor four months before Paris. Let’s get to know the long jumper, who last summer at the World Championships brought the first tricolor medal after 14 years of waiting.

Thirty years, two active Olympic Games, another one on the horizon, a priceless world medal and an unchanging, simply infectious smile. This is the recipe that best describes the athlete who is currently at her peak, practically one of the main teams with which the Romanian team will present itself in the summer in Paris.

Having settled in Germany for 10 years, a fundamental change in her life, which she candidly describes in a half-hour confession made in the “Joan Soter” hall in the capital, during one of her short visits to Bucharest, Alina Rotaru-Kottmann is among At the moment Romanian athletes are in a very good position.

Bronze in Budapest, a breath of oxygen for all Romanian athletics, opened new perspectives for her and, of course, facilitated her presence in Paris, in her third Olympics after Rio and Tokyo. Not the last, because the dream of Los Angeles 2028 remains well written on her road map.

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