After Olympian Gianmarco Tamberi lost his wedding ring in the Seine River during the opening ceremony, he shared a heartwarming apology to his wife. While the Italian high jumper was serving as one of his country’s flag bearers on a boat during the Olympic opening ceremony, his wedding ring fell into the river. He shared the news on his Instagram and was able to turn the accident into a beautiful message about love.
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In an Instagram post, he apologized to his wife, Chiara Bontempi Tamberi, for losing his ring in the Seine. “I’m sorry, my love, I’m so sorry,” the Olympian wrote. “Too much water, too many kilos lost in the last few months or maybe the irrepressible enthusiasm of what we were doing. Probably all three things, the fact remains that I felt it slip away.” He said that he saw his ring fly off of his finger and watched it bounce inside the boat, but unfortunately it fell off. “The bounce was unfortunately in the wrong direction and floating more than a thousand times in the air,” he said, adding, “I saw it dive into the water as if that was the only place where it wanted to be.” He continued, “It will remain forever in the riverbed of the city of love, flown away while I was trying to raise the Italian tricolor as high as possible during the opening ceremony of the most important sporting event in the world. If I had to invent an excuse I would never have been so imaginative.” He concluded by saying his wife could throw her ring into the river so they could be together forever. “If you want, we will also throw yours into that river so that they will be together forever and we will have one more excuse to, as you always asked me, renew our vows and get married again. I love you my love. May it be a good omen to return home with an even bigger gold!!!” His wife responded to the sweet post saying, “Only you can turn something like this into something romantic,” with a heart emoji.