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                                            [content_text] => The arena brand was created by sports visionary Horst Dassler, son of the Adidas founder and President of Adidas France. During the 1972 Munich Summer Games, Dassler was on the pool deck when Mark Spitz won his historic 7 gold medals.
<p>Dassler, along with the rest of the world, found himself in awe because not only was Spitz the first athlete to win 7 golds in one Olympiad, but at the same time he set 7 new world records. Dassler immediately started forming plans for a swimwear company dedicated to aquatic sports and created the new performance swimwear brand known today as arena.</p>
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                                            [content_name] => In 1973, just one year after the Games
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                                            [content_text] => In 1973, just one year after the Games, arena launched its first competition swimwear line with the introduction of Skinfit&reg;. Skinfit was known in the industry as a &ldquo;technological pearl.&rdquo; The new ultra-light fabric only weighed 18 grams and was designed to cling to a swimmer&rsquo;s body like a &ldquo;second skin.&rdquo;
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                                            [content_text] => The following year, arena signed the first female sponsorship agreement with Australian swimmer Shane Gould. Gould was the &ldquo;Female Spitz&rdquo; of the 1972 Munich Games, winning 5 individual Olympic medals. Working in collaboration with Gould, in 1974 arena developed the Shane Gould Female Swimsuit Collection.
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                                            [content_text] => Dassler knew sports sponsoring was key to the brand&rsquo;s success, so in preparation for the next Olympics arena started signing other individual athletes who could provide feedback to the design and development of new products, plus at the same time generate excitement for aquatic sports. By 1976, arena athletes and products were ready for the Olympic Games in Montreal. Members of the original arena Elite Team included such world champions as Mark Spitz (USA), Novella Calligaris (ITA), Steve Furniss (USA), David Wilke (UK), Shirley Babashoff (USA), Gary Hall (USA), Klaus Dibiasi (ITA), Ulrika Knape (SWE) and Maxine &ldquo;Miki&rdquo; King (USA). arena&rsquo;s Elite were equipped with arena&rsquo;s first line of swim caps and goggles designed specifically to meet the needs of high level competitors.
<p>The hard work that both the athletes and arena put into preparing for the Montreal Olympics paid off and the arena Elite Team won an astonishing 44 Olympic medals. Two years later, at the West Berlin World Swimming Championships athletes wearing arena won a total of 62 medals, nearly 75% of the total medal count, and broke 9 world records. Members of the original team went on to set a total of 83 world records.</p>
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                                            [content_name] => THE EIGHTIES. FREEDOM OF STYLE.
                                            [content_title] => THE EIGHTIES. FREEDOM OF STYLE.
                                            [content_text] => Getting used to being first, in 1980 arena introduced Flyback&reg;. Flyback was the world&rsquo;s first competition swimsuit designed with thin straps to create larger shoulder openings and an exposed back in order to give athletes complete upper body range of motion. To this day, many swimmers and divers still prefer the freedom of movement provided by the Flyback style so the popular swimsuit design has been updated and is featured in our current collection.
<p>At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the newest arena Elite Team member Matt Biondi became the 2nd swimmer to win 7 medals in one Olympiad. Close to matching Spitz&rsquo;s record, 5 of Biondi&rsquo;s 7 medals were Gold and 4 of those were won with world record times. The first man to swim the 100m Free in under 49 seconds, Biondi can also be referred to as a 3-Time Olympian, 11-Time Olympic Medalist, 6-Time World Champion, 24-Time U.S. National Champion and World Record Holder. He is now a member of the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame.</p>
<p>At the beginning of the 90&rsquo;s arena was ready to launch another technological breakthrough: AquaRacer&reg;. AquaRacer was designed to make swimmers glide through the water because of its extra smooth finish and outstanding fit with maximum freedom of movement.</p>
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                                            [content_name] => THE NINETIES. TOWARD THE NEW MILLENNIUM, ARENA BECOMES GLOBAL.
                                            [content_title] => THE NINETIES. TOWARD THE NEW MILLENNIUM, ARENA BECOMES GLOBAL.
                                            [content_text] => At the beginning of the 90&rsquo;s arena was ready to launch another technological breakthrough: AquaRacer&reg;. AquaRacer was designed to make swimmers glide through the water because of its extra smooth finish and outstanding fit with maximum freedom of movement.<br /><br />In 1997, the arena D&amp;D Team did it again and left everyone speechless with the launch of X-Flat&reg;, a fabric that was even thinner, smoother and lighter than AquaRacer. With a 25% lower weight than any other fabric used for competition level products, X-Flat was just a preview of what was to come in 2000. At the same time, the arena Elite Team continued to recruit new talented swimmers who went on to become historical world-class champions. Members included such talent as Alexander Popov and Franziska van Almsick, two of swimming&rsquo;s dominating world performers of the 90s. arena&rsquo;s drive to go beyond any established limit gave the world two technological breakthroughs: Powerskin&reg; (2000) and Powerskin X-Treme&reg; (2004). Powerskin technology became the flagship of the new generation of elite competition full-body swimsuits, as the new suits almost entirely cover an athlete&rsquo;s body. Powerskin&reg; and Powerskin X-Treme&reg; have won the privilege of accompanying the greatest champions onto the podiums of the most prestigious swimming events in Europe and the World.
<p>And today they are still the preferred racing swimsuits for a great number of international swimming champions, such as Laure Manaudou, Filippo Magnini, Roland Schoeman, Ryk Neethling, Laszlo Cseh and the list goes on.</p>
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                                            [content_name] => TWO THOUSANDS. COMMITMENT TO INNOVATION.
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            DAVID POPOVICI
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                    NATIONALITY
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                    Romanian
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                    HOMETOWN
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                    Bucharest
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                    DATE OF BIRTH
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                    15/09/2004
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                    DISCIPLINE
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                    Freestyle
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                    CLUB/COLLEGE
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                    Dinamo Bucuresti
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                    Adrian Radulescu
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            <p>David Popovici became the second-youngest man in history to break the 100m freestyle world record when he set the Foro Italico alight at the 2022 European Championships. </p><p>The Romanian – lightning quick around the turns – stopped the clock at 46.86 to take 0.05secs off the previous standard set by Cesar Cielo in the very same pool in Rome in 2009. </p><p>He was 17 years and 11-months old, six months older than Andy Coan of the USA who held the WR for 20 days in 1975. </p><p>David said: “So, I’m sort of in a world-record club and after I finished, Kristof Milak said to me ‘welcome to the club’. </p><p>“That was a nice welcome, I guess. It’s good to set new boundaries. Records are meant to be broken. I hope someone’s going to break mine and that I’m going to break his. That’s what sport is all about.” </p><p>David had put the world on notice with fourth in the 200m freestyle and seventh over 100m at the Tokyo Olympics. </p><p>A year later he was the dominant freestyler at the World and European Championships, winning double gold in both Budapest and Rome. </p><p>There were also seven golds across the 2022 European and World Junior Championships before ending the year with 200m freestyle silver and a world junior record over 100m at the World Short-Course Championships in Melbourne. </p><p>Not that David is a particular fan of swimming in the 25m pool, saying: “I swam well, but against my will because I still hate short course. I have to adapt but it’s looking good.”</p>
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                     I don’t really have one 😊
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                    Honestly I love any place close to the Mediterranean Sea because of the colors, the food and the warmth of the people living there
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                    Public person you admire
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                    ‘Sans Famille’ by Hector Malot
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                    One of my favorite painters is Naji Chalhoub, a Lebanese-born artist who I believe to be creating masterpieces with every touch of the canvas
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                    I would strongly advise anyone wanting to write a biography about me that they wait a few more years, I don’t want it to be just a normal book
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                    I haven’t really thought about what I would want to do with my life after swimming. For the moment the plan in my head is simple, be able to make a living out of what I love most, and that will always be swimming
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                    Proudest moment in swimming
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                    My proudest moment in swimming yet is finishing fourth in the 200m freestyle at the Olympics and being able to make everyone at home watching me -and also my whole country - very happy for and with me
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                    Just like any other swimmer I wouldn’t say I love waking up early to go to training but right after I get in the water I can understand why I push myself through this pain every day
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                    Usually doing long aerobic sets or long medley sets after lifting weights in the gym hits the hardest so I guess those are my least favorite trainings in general. My favorite sets would be the ones with race pace and anaerobic threshold
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                    I generally like race suits that are easier to put on and I don’t tend to swim in competition with the tightest ones. My favorite one is the Powerskin Carbon air 2
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                    The most important piece of equipment for me must be the goggles because if I don’t have the right pair I simply cannot swim at my best
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                    What I eat every day after training is a bottle of milk with cinnamon and honey and also a simple sandwich. Even though I’m so used to it I still find it to be one of my favorite foods after training
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                    For me the most annoying type of swimmers are the ones who don’t mind their own business and are always curious on how others perform instead of caring for their own swim, trying to improve themselves
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                    The pool in which I’ve felt best and which I really love in general – and that’s including the city - is the Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto, in Rome. That’s the fastest pool I’ve ever raced in and the atmosphere is simply unmatched
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                        200m Freestyle
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                    EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS, ROME
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                     <div class="athletemedaltype"
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                        GOLD
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                        100m Freestyle
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                        GOLD
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                        200m Freestyle
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                    WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, BUDAPEST
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                        GOLD
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                        100m Freestyle
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                        GOLD
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                        200m Freestyle
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                  <div class="blockgrayrightsectioncompetitionblockyear">
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                    EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS, KAZAN
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                        GOLD
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                        200m Freestyle
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                    OLYMPIC GAMES, TOKYO
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                        4th place
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                        200m Freestyle
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                    EUROPEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS, ROME
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                        GOLD
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                        50m Freestyle
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                        GOLD
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                        100m Freestyle
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                        GOLD
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                        200m Freestyle
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                        SILVER
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                        4x100m Freestyle
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                    EUROPEAN YOUTH OLYMPIC FESTIVAL, BAKU
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                        GOLD
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                        100m Freestyle
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                        SILVER
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                        50m Freestyle
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                        SILVER
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                        200m Freestyle
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