"Thanks to Mutaz, I'm flying again. If they had told me before, I wouldn't have said yes, to share the gold, but in that situation when they asked me to share it with him, given everything we had been through, I didn't think about it for a moment." These are the words of Gianmarco Tamberi who, after Barshimal Festival dello Sport 2023 in Trento, returns to the gold medal ex aequo in the high jump at the Tokyo Olympics.
"Barshim and I met in 2010 and he was already a star," Gimbo continues. I told him he was a superhero.
Thanks to him, I came back after the injury in 2016 that prevented me from participating in the Rio Games, which will always remain a scar for me, and Mutaz also helped me to overcome that moment. He told me that I could fly again, and do it for myself and not for others."
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