Here we are, it’s the big day. This evening starting at 7pm Gianmarco Tamberi will try to defend the Olympic gold he won three years ago in Tokyo. A feat within his reach, but made more difficult by a less than optimal physical condition due to a fever and a possible kidney stone that weakened him in recent days before arriving at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Italian flag bearer takes to the stage at the Stade de France with his usual determination and the desire to continue to prove that he is the best. “It was the hardest day of my life,” Gimbo said at the end of the qualifying session, with the bar set at 2.24, enough to earn the final. “Saturday will be easier.” The pain in his kidney, in fact, has almost disappeared and a few days without fever are doing him good to regain his strength.
“99% of the time, these in Paris will be my last Olympics,” he declared in recent days. Perhaps also for this reason, Tamberi is not thinking of abdicating the scepter without at least trying. And Italy is ready to support him, as always. The gold medal in the drawer, won jointly with Barshim, instead of satisfying him has unleashed him, Gianmarco wants an encore and today he can do it.
«Today was a disaster, apart from the desire to do I had nothing. The run-up was slow and there was no strength in my legs for the take-off. But Saturday will be different, I hope to drive you crazy like three years ago”. This is the message launched after the qualifications, a statement that gives hope.
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Gimbo asks for everyone’s support. “In Rio, many friends bought tickets to see me and were in the stands with me with the cast, in Tokyo they couldn’t come because of Covid… but now they will be there and I want to make them cheer.”
In the meantime, Gimbo had the opportunity to demonstrate once again how much friendship means to him. During the qualifications, in fact, his friend and colleague (and gold-timer in Tokyo) Mutaz Barshim he collapsed to the ground while taking a run-up to jump and Gianmarco, despite having just failed his attempt, rushed to help him.
“It was an instinctive gesture, luckily he’s fine and he’ll give me a hard time in the final.” Yes, in the final, where both, for different reasons, risked not being there. And instead, tonight, it will be a show.
Source: Vanity Fair
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