An example of tenacity and resilience, Gianmarco Tamberi32 years old, called Gimbo, is a hero of our times who knows how to navigate in easy and difficult waters without ever losing strength, courage and determination. He has the gold medal for the jump at the top at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the Budapest 2023 World Cup. But his way to victory has not always been straight. In 2016 an injury to the deltoid ligament of the left ankle, with consequent plaster, forced him to give up Rio’s Olympics. And then again at the Paris 2024 Olympics, where he was knocked out by repeated kidney colic, he faced elimination from the final of the jump up.
Yet he did not stop and on the stage we will 2025 announced that he will not retire from his sport, on the contrary that he is preparing for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.
Just his combative attitude made him the perfect candidate to become the first male spokesman in Italy of the historical message of the L’Oréal Paris brand “You Vali”, and Ambassador of the new range Elvive Growth Booster, A unisex line designed to help counteract hair loss, thanks to a patented formula with Aminexil -rt, a mix of aminexil, niacinamide and ginger root extract.
It is in this new guise that we have heard him on the phone to make us tell a little more about his strategy to always believe it.
He is famous for the heads (and beard), the beard in half, the blue hair, explain to us, what do they mean?
«It has always been an trick to put myself with my back to the wall in complicated moments, because the green, blue hair I always made for those races in which I wanted to bring out the best of me, and the alternative way of introducing myself, forced me to perform. Because the truth is that if you have green hair and last arrivals you look like a clown. If instead you have green hair and jump two and a half meters, save the shack. I then noticed over the years, how much to put myself in difficulty, naked in front of things, helped me to bring out the strongest part of me, this is the true reason for my stunts with my hair and beard ».
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His hair is a bit like those of Sansone, is it from them that he draws his invincible strength?
«It is something I have thought of many times, and that’s why I have often been afraid to cut them. There were moments when I came the crazy desire to change, but my great friend who had long hair and the tuft like me, Gigi Datome, the national basketball champion once said “Gimbo, I did it, cut them, I made the biggest bullshit of my life, and I will not do it anymore”. And so I have been carrying them for more than ten years ».
When did you understand that long hair would have created the aesthetic of her character?
«I think that from very young, since the times of the superiors, I have always liked long hair and I already brought it tied. Even if every now and then I was crazy to change and so every four years I cut them. Now my hair makes me recognizable ».
Why do you think the bald man are talking to humor and irony, while many aesthetic problems of women are not talking to the same freedom?
«Perhaps often and willingly it also depends on the way in which men tend to face baldness, that is, to laugh about it is a way to dramatize, and they are the same men, the first ones who make us a joke above, so as to make the question less important. However, I know many who suffer from the fact of not having the hair, a condition that lives like a lack. So I think it’s more right not to treat it superficially. The choice of self -irony must be completely personal ».
How do you take care of your hair?
«Being a sportsman, and making showers practically every day of the week, I am forced to treat them well. I don’t get too far, and you see, the hairstyle I have is the personal way in which my hair decides to be, when I don’t keep them tied. Clearly I use products that do not dry out and keep them hydrated, who prevent the fall, and do not find myself asking me to ask if I would do a hair transplant or not, because preventing it is better than cure. Fortunately I have a lot of hair and they are strong enough and I also have a family predisposition, on the side of my father, to a good structure. And then I have had the same color of the hair for years. It is lucky and I am aware of it, it will also be for this reason that I am particularly linked to my hair ».
What does it do to relax and in general to feel good?
«In moments of greatest stress I also do yoga lessons, I introduced it in the last three years and undoubtedly I have discovered its effectiveness. But something that relaxes me to death is to take a shower, under hot water I can stay there, indeed I would be all my life ».
And to have concentration, strength, determination to win what does it do?
«When you want to reach something at all costs, and you decide that it is a priority compared to everything else, then the strength can be found. I think everyone, in reality, have more strength than they believe, but we must understand how much we want to get involved to achieve that goal, so as to take it out. “
A question that comes from Google. What eats Gianmarco Tamberi?
«By making a sport that involves the overcoming of gravity, the more you are lighter it is easier it is to overcome it, my diet is quite rigid. At breakfast I mainly eat carbohydrates, such as for lunch, while dinner more a protein meal. Certainly the quantity of chiocalories is quite low compared to what is my build would require ».
What is the quantity of calories, can it say it?
“I keep it for me.”
And how many hours do you train a day?
“It depends a lot on the period in which I am, because near the races they train much less, the body must rest, it must be much more cool and less work load, but we say indicatively three or four hours a day”.
Where will he want to be in ten years?
«In Ancona, in the Marche, at home, with my family, with Chiara, and the little girl who is coming, who knows if there will also be another baby. I like the normal part of my life very much, that is, the place where I live, with the people I love, my friends, my family, this is the dimension in which I am very well. I certainly don’t see myself on the athletics tracks to jump or train. And then we will see fate what it will have in store ».
A tip for the youngest who want to achieve success like her?
“If one wants to win, reach something, before chasing that goal you would have to stop for a moment, look in the mirror and understand how much you are willing to do, to sacrifice. Because most people who want to win are not so ready to take the path to get there. It is important to be honest with yourself and understand that the journey to victory is not always so beautiful and linear, there are many difficulties, and you have to be ready in difficulties in sacrificing more and more. It is when the game is tough that you have to fight. In my opinion, this phrase means that we are all good at investing when things are going well, but when they go wrong, you tend to pull rows on the boat. Instead it is in those difficult moments that you must be able to get even more at stake, believe it even more, sacrifice even more to really make the difference ».
And what drives her to continue when it’s down?
«I have a very particular story, in my career I had very bad falls, very very low bass and in those moments I understood that I really had to invest in those days. I make an example, I followed the same diet that I did before the Olympics, even when I had plaster to the foot and perhaps 90% of the people in my place would have said: “Oh well, now it doesn’t make sense, I relax and enjoy a little more part of life”. And instead in those moments there, if you have the courage, the strength, the desire, the determination to put you back into play even more than before come repaid, because you do what the others would not do. In front of the difficulties, almost everyone tends to take a moment of rest, breath. As it is right that it is, not critical who does it. I also did it after the Paris 2024 Olympics, I needed to breathe, I did not have the courage, the strength to continue, in the following months, to claim from myself. I needed to stop for a moment. But if in moments like these it is possible to start … ».
Source: Vanity Fair
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