David Popovich, a phenomenon, a wonder, the new star of swimming. Last summer, at just 17 years old, he broke the record of all records, the 100-meter freestyle, and the world opened up before him.
Half a dozen universities in the United States offered him a blank check. Michigan, Stanford, Berkeley… The chance to train alongside the best swimmers in the world; to live with Michael Phelps, his idol; to study Psychology, the career that most attracts him due to his mother’s inheritance Georgettepsychologist.
All the technicians studied his technique. As it does? The position of him, propelled out of the water, riding his own wave. His stroke rate, unalterable, always unalterable. The very strong kick from him, especially the left. You get her back from him, his roll, his swerves.
And his country, Romania, went out of his way to pamper him. What he wanted, what he needed. From Nadia Comaneci y Catherine Szabogymnasts from the communist era, did not have a world reference and in the last Games they only won four medals, three in rowing and one in fencing.
David Popovici, a phenomenon, a wonder, the new swimming star. But also another teenager, a boy who goes out with his girlfriend Nuclear Power -make-up artist apprentice-, who listens to Romanian hip-hop -Subcarpati, Work Ploae or Specii-, who rides a bike around Budapest and who is trying to get his driver’s license.