Romanian David Popovici placed 4th in the 200 Free and 7th in the 100 Free at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He holds the World Junior Record in the 100 Free (47.30) and is 2nd behind Sun-woo Hwang in the 200 Freestyle with a 1:44.68.

Popovici was just recently drafted by the New York Breakers of the International Swimming League (ISL). He discusses his decision on swimming in the NCAA vs. the ISL.

David also walks you through his Olympic races and memories from Tokyo including when he got to meet Brent Hayden. He shares his best and hardest practices and his visualization methods.

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00:00 Swimming Sponsors

03:30 Break after Tokyo

06:00 NY Breakers

07:30 Short course swimmer?

09:00 ISL vs. College

10:00 NC State, Cal, Stanford, Texas

10:30 NCAA worth it?

12:25 100 Fly

13:50 Brent Hayden, Caeleb Dressel

15:55 Peaking Twice

17:50 Goal: Swim in Olympic Final

18:00 200 Freestyle

19:00 Fernando Scheffer

19:45 Behind the Blocks Routine

22:20 Lane 1

23:20 Sun-woo Hwang

24:40 Tom Dean

25:34 Warm Up for 200 Free

27:20 Visualization

29:00 200 Free

31:15 100 Free

33:15 Waves

34:00 Riding Miressi's wave

36:30 Bold Plans

36:50 Out in 22 or back in 23

38:30 World Record

39:22 Future Plans

41:00 Favorite Freestyle Drill

42:15 Suck at Kicking

43:15 Hardest Swim Practice Ever

46:50 Worst Stroke

47:25 Favorite Sprint Set

48:30 Times in Practice

50:30 200 Free World Record

51:20 Training Partners

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