Great year for European sport. This is, in essence, the conclusion of the first day of the 41st Seminar of the Association of European Olympic Committees (EOC), which is currently being held in Samorin, Slovakia. EOC Sports Director Peter Brüll explained to delegates: European athletes achieved a historic collective performance at the Tokyo Games. No less than 40 of the continent's 50 national Olympic committees have won at least one medal in Japan. In total, Europe won almost half (48,43%) of the number of medals up for grabs in Tokyo. During this first day of the Seminar, the Deputy Director of Olympic Solidarity, Pamela Vipond, specified that 310 European athletes had received a scholarship in 2021. Among them, 70 won a medal at the Tokyo Games and 101 obtained a diploma. Finally, the EOC took advantage of this inaugural day to award its Piotr Nurowski Prize to the best young European athlete of the year in a summer sport (photo above). It was awarded to 16-year-old Romanian swimmer Piotr Popovici. Benjamin of the Romanian delegation at the Tokyo Games, he ranked 4th in the 200m and 7th in the 100m. Piotr Popovici obtained 37% of the votes of EOC delegates, ahead of Serbian Adriana Vilagos (athletics), Spain's Adriana Cerezo Iglesias (taekwondo), Britain's Sky Brown (skateboard), and Russia's Viktoria Listunova (gymnastics). ).
