“After the Olympics, no one will talk about David Popovici, no one will post pictures with him (like we did with Simona Halep), we will find other cool topics to get thousands of likes“, draws the attention of the psychologist Mihai Copăceanu who observes that “all Facebook is full of David Popovici as if we won the medals at the Olympics”.
Mihai Copăceanu: It’s sad that after the Olympics no one will talk about David Popovici Photo: Archive
“All Facebook is full of David Popovici as if we won the medals at the Olympics. We all use the fact that we are great Romanians and patriots. I wished him good luck and wrote him congratulations. I say let’s keep calm that David Popovici won’t read our statuses full of pride, he doesn’t even have time for the comments on his own page. Why? Because the boy works and works a lot with exemplary modesty. Shut up and do it,” wrote the psychologist Mihai Copăceanu, in a post on his Facebook page.
The psychologist states that the lesson that the swimming champion gives us “it is not about Romania, about the tricolor, nor about performance at the highest level, but about work and seriousness, about common sense and modesty”, adding that “if we understood this aspect it would be enough“.
Copăceanu also mentions that despite the wave of reactions, the performance belongs only to David Popovici.
“We can’t learn from him about sports performance, because most of us do sports performance, not even sports. How many of us do sports? And his performance is not that of a country, it is not ours, it is not the performance of Romania, it is the result of the work of a single person, it is the individual performance of David Popovici. That’s it. He swam.
What’s sad is that after the Olympics no one will talk about David Popovici, no one will post pictures with him (like we did with Simona Halep), we’ll find other cool topics to get thousands of likes”, the psychologist also claimed.
The specialist states that we should do our basic duties, drawing attention to education and good manners, and to the lesson that the athlete gave us, which “he wrote little, but he did a great deal.”
“As good Romanians, we could do the basic duty of every Romanian/man: to teach our children to be respectful, serious, honest and hardworking, to respect their colleagues and teachers and maybe learn, and we learn to say hello on the street or when entering a store, let’s behave civilized. (…) Before superficially expressing our Romanianness on Facebook, let’s behave humanely on the street and in traffic and maybe talk less and do more. This is what David Popovici, who wrote two words on Facebook after becoming Olympic champion, teaches us“, said Copăceanu, emphasizing that the athlete: “He wrote a little, but he did a lot! That’s the lesson for us“.
“I felt you! Thank you! Romania“, was the short message written on Wednesday night by David Popovici, on Facebook, after the trials at the Olympic Games in Paris.
And on Monday, after winning Olympic gold in the 200-meter freestyle, David Popovici wrote a short message on Facebook in Latin, “Amor fati!“. Translated from Latin, it means to love your destiny, referring to the German philosopher Nietzche, according to tvrinfo.ro.
David Popovici was a gold and bronze medalist at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. As “The Truth” reported, his outstanding performance at the Olympic Games will be rewarded by COSR with 200,000 euros (140,000 euros for gold and 60,000 of euros for bronze). And CS Dinamo is preparing a record first prize for David Popovici, going to offer him 50% of the amount collected from COSR. Ionuț Popa, the president of the Dinamo sports club, announced that the sportsman will receive 100,000 euros from the Dinamo club: 70,000 euros will be for the gold medal, while the bronze will be rewarded with 30,000 euros. And from Ion Țiriac you will choose a car worth around 50,000 euros.
