Give Gianmarco Tamberi a gold medal for this apology of Olympic proportions.

After the Italian high jumper lost his wedding ring in Paris' River Seine July 26 while serving as one amongst his nation's flag bearers on a ship sometime of the 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony, he confessed all on social media to ranking amends alongside with his significant other.

“I'm sorry, my admire, I'm so sorry,” the Olympian wrote in Italian on Instagram in a submit shared on each and each his and significant other Chiara Bontempi Tamberi's pages. “Too grand water, too many kilos lost in the old couple of months or perchance the irrepressible enthusiasm of what we were doing. Possibly all three things, the truth stays that I felt it scramble away.”

The 32-year-inclined, who shared his Olympic flag-bearer responsibilities with Arianna Errigo, a fencer, stated he seen the ring “fly” and “followed it with my gaze till I seen it bounce at some stage in the boat,” which gave him hope.

But alas, “the bounce used to be unfortunately in the tainted course and floating more than a thousand times in the air,” he stated, adding, “I seen it dive into the water as if that used to be the appropriate location the ranking it wished to be.”

Gianmarco, who integrated in his submit pics of himself and his significant other at their 2022 wedding and of their bands, as well as a image of Elijah Wood's Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring photoshopped alongside with his face, added that if this “in fact needed to happen,” he “couldn't take into consideration a better location.”

“This could increasingly reside without destroy in the riverbed of the metropolis of admire, flown away while I was looking out for to raise the Italian tricolor as high as seemingly sometime of the opening ceremony of the largest sporting tournament on this planet,” persevered the athlete. “If I needed to manufacture an excuse I would by no approach bear been so imaginative.”

Gianmarco, a 2020 Olympics gold medalist, also took it a step extra to ranking a various proposal to his significant other. “When you happen to desire to bear, we will be in a position to also throw yours into that river so they’ll probably be collectively without destroy and we will be in a position to bear any other excuse to, as you gradually requested me, renew our vows and earn married all all over again.”

He persevered, “I adore you my admire. Could maybe honest it be a appropriate omen to return residence with an even bigger gold!!!”

As for the approach his significant other replied, as well as to posting his message on her possess Instagram, she also wrote in an emotional commentary, “Most entertaining which that it’s seemingly you’ll maybe flip something adore this into something romantic,” including two crying face emojis and a heart.

Gianmarco reposted her commentary on his Instagram Tales, adding, “100 pt exp.”

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