The name of David Popovich begins to be recognized throughout the world. He is one of the most precocious talents that exist right now in the sport. His progression has been meteoric. At the age of 16, he already began to amaze the swimming universe. Now, at 17, he has established himself as one of the best on the planet in the pool.
Due to his talent, his precocity and his ability to grow both sportingly and personally, he is called to break history and beat a good part of the records that are established today in swimming. A few months ago he copied the covers of the whole world when he hung two golds on his World Cups in Hungary.
It was in the 100 and 200 meter tests. Two races that have served him now to score another victory, but this one is infinitely superior to any medal that he is going to win in his life. This champion called to be a legend has brought out the most philanthropic and kind side of him to try to help another athlete who is going through a very bad moment in her life.
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David has decided to raffle off the hat and glasses with which he won his two gold medals at the World Championships in Hungary. His challenge is none other than to raise as much money as possible to allocate it to a charitable cause. He wants to do whatever he can to help Florentina Filipovici. She was in her day another young athlete with a promising career ahead of her. She became the junior world champion in canoeing.
This athlete has just been diagnosed with breast cancer that has nipped her sports career and its progression in the bud. Just at a time when her life besides her was not going through the easiest time for her. A very hard stick for someone who was called to be one of the best on the planet in her discipline. A terrible blow that has considerably affected her morale. For this reason, Popovici has decided to lead this current that seeks to help Florentina as much as possible.
David Popovici with one of his medals from the Hungarian Swimming World Championships
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The drama by Florentina Filipovici
Together with the young genius of world swimming, they have also turned to help the Romanian Canoeing Federation and other Romanian civil society organizations. Currently, Filipovici is 28 years old and has a really complicated life. You have three children, a 7-year-old girl and two boys, 5 and 3 respectively. She and she struggle to get ahead on their own after living with a husband whom they define as “very aggressive”.
As if this situation were not already difficult in itself, now she has been diagnosed with breast cancer that is making it much more complicated to be able to move forward. The story of the shirt has touched the heart of Popovici, who did not want to miss the opportunity to try to extend her own hand to help her.
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A web page has been set up to coordinate the help that Florentina can receive and that is where Popovici has spoken about the situation that this renowned t-shirt is going through: “Florentina needs a house so that her children can grow up in peace and security. I donate to the I founded the hat and glasses with which I competed in the World Cup and I ask those of you who have been close to me with your thoughts and your energy to give this person a hand”.
Now, with the funds that are being raised thanks to this initiative, it is being possible to mark the construction of a house for this Romanian canoeist who lived her moment of greatest splendor in 2011 with her silver in the Eton World Cupin USA. A story that undoubtedly shows that the human greatness of a champion like Popovici that measures his personal value beyond the triumphs achieved in the pool.
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