Camelia Potec (43 years old), the president of the Romanian Swimming and Modern Pentathlon Federation, is pointed at by a former generational colleague, Ștefan Ioan Gherghel (46 years old), a medalist at the European Championships.
Continental runner-up in 2004 and bronze medalist in 2000, Gherghel accuses Camelia of increasing his salary from the federation and granting the 13th salary for subordinates in 2025, considered a year of crisis by the authorities.
Potec simultaneously receives money from the Steaua club, from COSR and from FRNPM. His income is supplemented by the life annuity that the state grants him as a result of the Olympic title awarded in 2000, at the Athens Olympics. As the head of the federation, she claims to raise a salary of 11,000 lei.
According to golazo, Camelia Potec defended herself by saying that she had nothing to complain about and accused, in turn, that she was being put up against the wall by “some people who for so many years do nothing but throw mud and even if they have the opportunity to do extraordinary things, they don’t do them because they care about others“.
In the past, Gherghel also had something to reproach David Popovici. “He also puts his shoulder, not just words, to the national team!“, Gherghel told him, implying that the athlete does not get involved enough for the tricolor cause.
