Dear friends, Radio Romania International continued the traditional poling of its listeners and Internet and social networks users to decide which of today’s personalities influenced the world the most in 2022, in a positive sense.
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky was designated The Personality of the Year 2022 on RRI by a huge margin. Raffaele Ponticelli, from Italy, nominated him for the heroism he and his people showed in defending the country against the Russian invasion. Miodrag Ristić, from Serbia, argued that Courage, wisdom, determination are the characteristics of a person, and this person is the president of Ukraine. My choice is Ukrainian President Zelensky who has been an inspiration to his people in the struggle against the Russian invasion wrote Christer Brunström, from Sweden. Zelensky defended and led his country so well in the sad war against the Russian invader that is unjustly ravaging Ukraine, a war that we all hope will end soon, argued
On July 9th
1922, in Alameda, California, Johnny Weissmuller ended the one hundred meter
race in less than one minute. Born in Freidorf, close to Timisoara, in western
Romania, Weissmuller was to become famous for both his Olympic wins and the
part he played in Tarzan, the Ape Man series. After more than 100 years, another
swimmer born in Romania broke the record in the one hundred meter race to officially
become the fastest swimmer in history.
At the European
Championships in Rome on August 13th the Romanian David Popovici
ended the one hundred meter race in 46 seconds and 86 hundredths beating a 13
year old record held by Cielo Filho of Brazil, who ended the race in 46 seconds
and 91 hundredths at the world championships in Rome in 2009, when tech suits
for increasing speed were still allowed.
Besides the
title in Rome, David Popovici has also reaped the world and European titles in
the 100 and 200 meter free-style races both in junior and senior competitions.
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17-year-old David Popovici enters the meet as the top seed in the boys 200 free by a truly massive margin and the fastest swimmer in the world this year.
David Popovici is the frontrunner to win the boy's 200 free after dropping a 1:42.97 at the European Championships, the fastest textile performance ever.