Olympics 2020 high jump champion, Gianmarco Tamberi lost his wedding ring during the opening day boat ride along the French Seine and has issued a romantic apology to his wife.
Tamberi, 32. was waving the Italian flag when the ring slipped out his finger and bounced into the river. He blamed excessive training for the weight loss, which led to the slip.
“I’m sorry my love, I’m so sorry,” he wrote on Instagram in a post dedicated to his wife, Chiara Bontempi Tamberi.
“If it had to happen, if I had to lose this ring, I couldn’t imagine a better place,” he wrote, claiming the ring will now “remain forever in the riverbed of the city of love”.
He called the bad luck “poetic” and suggested they throw Chiara’s ring in the river too.
“[Then] they will be together forever, and we will have one more excuse to renew our vows and marry again,” he said.
“Only you could turn this into something romantic,” Chiara wrote under her husband’s apology.
The pair have been married since September 2022.
Tamberi previously hit the headlines at the Tokyo 2020 Games after he shared the high jump gold medal with Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim. Both opted not to go beyond the 2.37m bar they had cleared.
He has also gained attention for sporting a half-shaven beard during competitions since 2011 as his “trademark” style. With BBC reports
