On Thursday, David Popovici won the gold medal in the 200-meter freestyle at the World Junior Swimming Championships in Lima, Peru. After a new spectacular performance, our athlete shared a quote on his personal Instagram page.
Kobe Bryant, a source of inspiration for David Popovich
Despite the fact that he did not force, David stopped the clock at 1:46.18 and was easily ahead of Hungarian Daniel Mesaros (+02.80) and Italian Filippo Beroni (+02.87).
“I’m having fun, the audience helps me a lot, of course. It was a pretty good race, I’m happy and everything is fine” – Davyd Popovychafter the 200 m freestyle final.
Hours after he won his 10th gold medal of the year, David shared a video on Instagram where the legendary Kobe Bryant talked about life’s ups and downs.
Even if he is used to success, the athlete, who will turn 18 in two weeks (September 15), realizes that he will probably have fewer pleasant moments in his career, but (with the right attitude) he will survive them well.
“Doubt is such a strange thing! I mean, there are times when you succeed and times when you fail. Therefore, it is useless to waste time on doubts whether you will succeed or not.
You just have to put one foot in front of the other, control what you can control, and then see what happens.
If you win, great, you wake up the next day and continue your journey. If you lose, it’s bad, but you have to get up the next day and keep going, again and again.” – said Kobe Bryantwho died in a helicopter crash last year.
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Also, David Popovichi will compete for gold in the 100 m freestyle
In Lima, David Popovichi will start at the distance of 100 m freestyle, in which he is the world record holder (he is the European and world champion among seniors).
Qualification: September 3 (after 17:30)
Semifinals: September 4 (after 02:00)
Final: September 5 (after 02:00).
Romania, an extraordinary result at the Junior World Championship in Lima
Romania has won three medals so far at the World Championships in Lima: silver in the men’s 400m freestyle (Vlad Stancu), gold in the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay (David Popovici, Alexandru Constantinescu, Stefan Cozma and Patrick Sebastian Dinu) and gold 2000 year. m men’s freestyle (David Popovichi).
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