No Medal Crumpled face 'Freestyle 200m strongest' Popovich "Terrible game"
Leading up to the 150m section, but reversed one after another in the last 50m and finished in 4th place
Immediately after the men's 200m freestyle event, the joint coverage area received mixed reactions from reporters from different countries.
Korean reporters breathed a sigh of relief as Hwang Seon-woo (20, Gangwon Provincial Office) won the 바카라 bronze medal in 1:44:42,
While British reporters cheered as Matthew Richards (1:44:30) and Tom Dean (1:44:32) won gold and silver medals.
The Romanian reporters who visited Fukuoka to cover David Popovic (Romania), the 'freestyle 200m prince',
Who no one suspected, couldn't hide their dejected expressions.
One of them even sat down on the floor in the common coverage area.
Popovich finished fourth with a poor record of 1:44:90 in the men's freestyle 200m final at the 2023 Fukuoka World Swimming Championships held at Marine Messe Fukuoka Hall in Fukuoka, Japan on the 25th.
Popovich, who ran from the first 50m section, kept the lead throughout the 100m and 150m sections.
However, he allowed Hwang Seon-woo to turn around with the last 50m remaining, and then Richards and Dean all passed Popovich.
Popovich won the gold medal by beating Hwang Seon-woo at last year's Budapest Games, and at the European Championships that year,
She showed off her spirit by entering 1:42 seconds (1:42:97) for the first time since 2010, when full-body swimsuits were banned.
However, ahead of the World Championships, the season's best record stayed at 1 minute and 46 seconds,
Raising doubts, and turned away empty-handed in the final, unable to use its strength properly.
"It was a terrible race," Popovich said of the final 50m.
“At the same time, it also means that there is something that can be improved.
If you run a perfect race with nothing to improve on, there will be nothing left to do.
I'm glad this happened now, and I'm sure it's a meaningful result."
Popovich still has 100m freestyle left.
The 100m freestyle qualifiers for this event will be held on the morning of the 26th. He broke the
100m freestyle world record in 46.86 seconds. “I really like the 200m, but I also love the 100m.
For tomorrow, I will eat well, get a good night's sleep, and come back."