Gianmarco Tamberi at the European Athletics Cup, surprise debut – Corriere.it

I haven’t jumped in competition for months and make my debut in the European Cup in Poland, in a match where the rule is that after four failed attempts at any measure you’re out, a bit of a risk: but I want to compete and wear the blue shirt for which tomorrow morning he will fly to Chorzow with the national team.

a Gianmarco Tamberi relaxed and highly motivated the one who announces the competitive programs for the season which will culminate in the World Championships in Budapest where he will go in search of the last title he lacks in a crazy palmares. We had to wait a bit for the debut – explains the Olympic and European high jump champion – because it was a year of great changes and we wanted to isolate ourselves together with the new team. We wanted to be between us and understand each other and get to know each other well. For me it was a huge breath of fresh air: I rediscovered the enthusiasm of a kid. Debuting at the European Championships presents many unknowns including the initial emotions. But on Monday the last technical training went reasonably well and on Sunday afternoon I will immediately compete in the blue shirt, which gives me great emotion.

Gimbo’s program in view of Budapest (from 18 August) includes the Diamond League meetings on 2 July in Stockholm and the one on July 16th always on the track of the Silesian Stadium, in Poland, as well as a couple of other matches that could include London. Tamberi in his Ancona has trained and is training almost exclusively indoors, because the track in the outdoor stadium is too run down and at risk of injury. According to him, the results of the change in the technical staff were very positive, with the definitive transition from father Marco to Giulio Ciotti as coach and Michele Palloni as athletic trainer. With Giulio and Michele we said that no major upheavals were needed – explains Gimbo – I know the technique and with my father we had developed it to the fullest. Above all, we took benchmarks of my best career jumps and then collected in a hard disk a huge amount of videos of my chases on the 8/7/9/11 steps to analyze in depth what works and what doesn’t work.

On the breakdown of the relationship with the father, Gimbo does not hide anything: I have never hidden how difficult the relationship between me and my father was, far from it, the point that the relational problems that I had since I was a child have worsened. I felt little taken into consideration in my activity, I needed to be listened to more when I had physical problems. There was a lack of communication between us and training and competing alone would have meant turning my career and my way of being upside down.

About comrade and friend Marcell Jacobs

struggling with serious physical problems, Gimbo explains that Marcell is not having a great time. I’m close to him, I wrote to him, he shouldn’t be afraid to go straight towards the goal. It happened several times to give up races at the last moment due to injuries and he was the first to feel bad and the jabs from the various opponents didn’t help. He detached himself from social media like I did in the past to be able to concentrate better. Know how to return to high levels.