VIDEO | ‘Gimbo’ Tamberi: “Mattarella has given me strength, he makes us proud”
Gianmarco Tamberi, standard bearer of the national team at the Paris 2024 Olympics, thanks the President of the Republic during the meeting in the Quirinale gardens
ROME – “Thank you president for watching my race yesterday, you were there to give me strength and I couldn’t disappoint you“. Gianmarco Tamberi, standard bearer of the national team at the Paris 2024 Olympics, during the meeting in the Quirinale gardens, thanks the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, who attended the last two evenings of the Olympic Stadium in Rome European Athletics Championships.
Responding to journalists, ‘Gimbo’ talks about his emotion in having an exceptional spectator among the public: the President of the Republic: “He came on Tuesday evening to watch the race – he explains – I think he had fun, he was positively impressed by the evening, by the enthusiasm, so much so that he wanted to come back the following day and I think it’s a truly unusual thing. This is perhaps even more proud than having had it on the first evening >Knowing that that evening made him so proud that he came back the next day means that it touched him in some way. I thank him personally but also on behalf of the whole team for what he does for us. Giving the right importance to sport also makes us feel important for what we do and always underlines how many sacrifices we have to make to get where we need to get to. And it’s not a given.”