Who saw David Popovich, in secret. The first pictures have appeared

At a scheduled meeting in Bucharest, David Popovici (20 years old) reunited with his good friend Adam Peaty (29), a British swimmer who can be proud, among other things, to be is a three-time Olympic champion.

Popovici and Peaty have known each other for several years and agreed to shoulder the burden of launching a new project to support young people who want to practice swimming.

“It’s wonderful to be able to be here, in Romania.” Adam Peaty, farewell to David Popovici in Bucharest

Adam Peaty, a British swimmer who won Olympic gold three times in his career, once at Rio 2016 (100m breaststroke) and twice at Tokyo 2020 (100m breaststroke and 4×100m medley), has a close relationship with David Popovici, the Roman who in the past is also one of his great admirers.

The two also developed a friendship, especially after David Popovici accepted, in 2023, to participate in the “Sprint with the Stars” challenge. This is an event started and developed by Adam Peaty, in London, which allows children who swim to play in the pool with their idols, respectively the biggest stars in the swimming world And in 2023, David Popovici openly accepted Adam Peaty’s invitation to participate in an edition of “Sprint with the Stars”.

Now, a year later, David Popovici and Adam Peaty seem determined to engage in a new project, only in Romania. This time, the Romanian swimming star was the one who welcomed the Briton in Bucharest. On social networks, Adam Peaty posted several photos from Romania, which can also be seen in the gallery of the article, and in one of the images, the star of the British national team featured by David Popovichi and his father, Mihai Popivici. That photo was later shared by David Popovici.

It’s wonderful to be here, in Romania”, wrote Peaty, in the description of the photo.

It remains to be seen what the two great athletes will do, out of the desire to contribute to the development of Romanian swimming.

Adam Peaty has 6 Olympic, 8 World and 16 European medals

In addition to the gold medals mentioned at the beginning of the article, Adam Peaty won Olympic silver in the men’s 4×100 meter relay in Tokyo in 2020 and in Rio in 2016. Also in 2024 at the At the Paris Olympics, Peaty added another silver medal to his record after finishing 2nd in the 100m breaststroke.

Meanwhile, he won 8 gold medals at the World Championships and at least 16 at the European Championships, and throughout his life He also set several records, some of which have not been broken even today, such as the 50-meter breaststroke and the 100 meter breaststroke.

Adam Peaty officially returned to the pool in 2024 after previously deciding to take a break from swimming due to personal issues.

David Popovich! Yes, that’s right… the biggest name in world swimming is flying from Romania for the 2023 “Sprint with the Stars”… He’s the world record holder in style free 100 meters (no – in the meantime his record has been broken)”, notes the Instagram page of the event “Sprint with the Stars” in June 2023.