In the Erasmus+ project “Sport possibilities in restricted periods”, implemented by BK-95, we share the stories of athletes from Romania. “My name is Adela Dumitrescu, I am a high-performance athlete and I have been practicing athletics since September 15, 2007. I enrolled in the Sports High School by myself and was accepted without having done any prior training. I did not believe that I could still do athletics at the age of 15, I thought it was like gymnastics, which requires starting at the age of 3-4.

I had been practicing athletics at the Sports High School Club for 4 years, then I moved to Pandurii in my second year of college. Since 2019, I have been active at a club in Bucharest, namely ACS Sportul Feroviar, and for about 6 months now, I am also activating at CSM Caransebeș Club.

From the perspective of restrictions, the pandemic did not affect me because even before the pandemic, everything was the same for me, since I was only leaving the house for training and shopping. However, it did affect me in terms of competitions because many competitions were cancelled and my income was limited to zero.

At first, I took a break from training and waited for things to calm down a bit. Then, I started to train around my block for a while, and to slowly go to the stadium, parks, fields, forests, etc.

There are many athletes who have a rather different lifestyle than mine, and it was certainly much more difficult for them during the pandemic period.”

Project partners: Scout Society (Romania), Türkiye Okul Sporları Federasyonu (Turkey), Futbolo mokykla klubas Lituanica (Lithuania), BK-95 (Latvia)

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