“I lost 11.5 kilos in three months” – Corriere.it

“After Tokyo, for a few days I too thought I had nothing more to prove: what could be greater than an Olympic gold medal? But that medal helped me to look inside myself and now I know that I am a chronic dissatisfied person, one who will be angry on any platform if he does not fly high ». Luckily there is Gimbo Tamberi to animate the sad press conference for the presentation of the Golden Gala: a generous and talkative star among sulky champions like the top sprinter Fred Kerley which is expressed in listless monosyllables.

Tamberi flaunts a pair of colorful shoes, prepared for him by the sponsor. “I’ll use them at the Eugene World Cup. Each writing (the motto is “Fly or die”, ndr), each drawing is an important piece of my life: the passion for basketball, the love for Chiara, the admiration for black athletes and their achievements. I would like to express my feelings and values ​​more openly but I struggle out of shyness and fear of being banal. In Rome I want to win a race that has always escaped me, then aim for the World Cup and those 2.50 meters that I deserve ». In telling himself, Tamberi (who will not find his rival-brother Barshim, injured) reveals the recent one about him, very hard fight against the balance: «I weigh 78 kilos, I lost 11.5 in a few months thanks to a strict diet and great sacrifices. Now I feel I can fly ».

Tamberi is the star of an Italian stage of the Diamond League who returns to his natural home, the Olimpico in Rome, and finds in the stands an audience that the Marche region will have to satisfy by also acting in the place of the‘injured Marcell Jacobs

, present on the track. The meeting will see 15 other Tokyo Olympians parade. In a royal 200 the queens Felix, Miller-Uibo, Asher-Smith, Thompson-Herah will compete, in the men’s 100 Kerley and King lead the Americans, while in the double distance our heroes of Tokyo Tortu, Desalu and Patta will compete with Bednarek and Adams. In the 800 women there is the US phenomenon Athing Mu, in the 400 Kirani, in the 5000 the impossible challenge of Crippa against Barega and six Africans capable of running (a lot) under 13 ‘. Among the 36 Azzurri, the unprecedented test on the 3000 meter walk of Japanese gold Massimo Stano and the hope that Larissa Iapichino you go back to jumping for a long time stimulated by the German phenomenon Mihambo.