Tamberi reveals he lost wedding ring in Seine during Olympic ceremony
- Italian flag bearer apologises to his wife
- High jumper says ring ‘will remain forever in city of love’
The Italian high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi has apologised to his wife on social media after his wedding ring was lost in the River Seine during Friday’s opening ceremony. Tamberi, who shared high jump gold in Tokyo with Qatar’s Mutaz Barsham, was Italy’s male flag bearer for the boat parade through the French capital.
In an Instagram post to his wife, Chiara Bontempi Tamberi, he poetically described the moment the ring slipped from his finger. “Too much water, too many kilos lost in the last few months or maybe the irrepressible enthusiasm of what we were doing,” wrote Tamberi, who was sharing flag-bearing duties with the fencer Arianna Errigo.