As in Tokyo, indeed no. Gianmarco Tamberi he had to sweat his Italian title in the high jump: it took the extra jumps against Marco Fassinotti. In Japan, for Olympic gold, at 2.37, after three errors at 2.39, the agreement with Mutaz Barshim. In Rieti, on the other hand, the two Italian climbers faced off until the last play-off jump. And Tamberi, not at his best due to a muscle problem, won, but he didn’t like it too much.
The play-off and the failure to greet Tamberi and Fassinotti
The two, Tamberi (Fiamme Oro) and Fassinotti (Aeronautica), made a clear course up to 2.23. Then, for both, they missed three times at 2.26. At that point it would have been Fassinotti to refuse the agreement of an ex aequo title, model Tokyo. So the two jumpers went back to 2.24, jumping it on the first attempt. He then returned to jump at 2.26 and this time Tamberi placed the winning paw, while Fassinotti missed three attempts. The two ultimately didn’t shake hands. Indeed, Tamberi would have let slip a few words too many towards the opponent and was also sanctioned with a yellow card by the jury for unsportsmanlike conduct. At the end of the race, the Olympic champion let himself go to an outburst: “It was I who tried to greet him – claims Gimbo – and he, as on other occasions in the past, addressed me with an unhappy phrase. ‘You can’t jump anymore. ‘he told me, knowing full well that my only goal of the day was to go much higher. Eugene World Cup, but I have some technical difficulties. I’m fine if I had a chance to make my situation worse I would not have gone down to the platform today. However, I am not happy with the race, I expected something else, I feel conditioned as I jump from the annoyance I have in the run-up, but it is also a technical difficulty. I would be a liar if I said that winning the title was my goal today. “
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