David Popovici made his plans for 2025
The swimmer David Popovici, designated on Tuesday the athlete of the year at the « Natation Champions 2024 » champions from the Royal Palace, said that his main competitions of 2025 are the European Championships Under-23 (June 26-28) from Samorin (Slovakia) and the World Championships from Singapore (July 11-August).
« Besides the World Cup for which I am preparing, I want to go on a very beautiful vacation after. I want to spend as much time with my family, with friends and doing what I like. Tomorrow, on April 9, I will be at the national championships, and then to the European Under-2 from the end of June. Show the world from what they are made.
As usual, David Popovici does not want to impose goals on this year’s competitions, but it is certain that the results will come if he will reach his best variant: « As a child I did not want to fall into this net to set my goals, because I read somewhere in a book where the author tried to define happiness, what is very difficult. Cold and logic, which said in the following way: ‘Hapiness is the Function of Reality minus the expectations’ (happiness is the existence of reality without expectations). The expectations of the kind.
A European or World Cup record remain possible in 2025 as a new chapter in the rivalry with the Chinese Pan Zhanle, at the World Cup in Singapore.
« A record is always in the plans. The thing is that these world records are beautiful, they are pleasant, as well as the medals, but … if I focus only on the best and if I focus only on doing what I know to do best, somehow they appear. Following, he’ll take the latter again.
David Popovici told an incident, in which a lady recognized him after leaving a hairdresser and told her happy meeting: « ‘To live your life!’ It seemed very beautiful and very important and this I advise everyone regardless of the sports, no matter how soon or later it will appear, regardless of the hardness, glory, failure, to live your life. For the expectations of others, either why one another or the world in general says.
At the nationals from Otopeni (April 9-13), David Popovici will compete at 50 m free, 100 m free, 200 m free and 100 m butter.
The Romanian champion added that he does not have expectations for national competitions and he wants to see what level he is: « Honestly, I always have no expectations for these nationals, in fact for the competition in general I try not to have expectations, I want to see how quickly I can swim on 9, 10, how much I can see. Why yes, why not always.
