Gimbo Tamberi thinks about retiring: “Maybe it’s time…”

«Maybe the time has come to make that decision…». It is the post that appears, on a black background, in a story published on Instagram by Gianmarco Tamberi. A cryptic phrase which however could concern the continuation of his career. Eliminated in the second measure of the Olympic high jump final in Paris after having struggled for days with renal colic which had put his presence in doubt until the end, Gimbo had made it known that he wanted to take some time. «Usually you start again by setting yourself a new goal, something that stimulates you enough to go beyond the difficulties you’ve had – he said from Casa Italia on the closing day of the Games – I can think of everything but the thing I find it most difficult to see is put sport before everything again. It could be a thought now and change tomorrow. I definitely owe something to my family, to my friends, to my wife, it means owing them time, wanting to have a family with my wife, living my non-sporting life. It doesn’t mean that I will stop or that I won’t be an athlete with the same seriousness, but there’s a lot between doing it seriously and how I’ve done it in recent years.”