Italian Olympian Gianmarco Tamberi arrived in Paris with plans of defending his gold medal in the finals for Men’s high jump. Instead, he’s been making headlines for a streak of terrible luck.
Just hours before Tamberi was set to compete in the finals, he announced he was in an ambulance heading to the emergency room after “vomiting blood” on two separate occasions.
"I dreamed of everything for this day except living a nightmare like this...????,” the high jumper wrote on Instagram, alongside a photo of him in the ambulance clutching someone’s hand.