Reigning Olympic, world and European high jump champion, standard-bearer at the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony, Gianmarco Tamberi is the Italian Olympic Ambassador of Warner Bros. Discovery, broadcaster of the Games broadcast by Eurosport and live in full on Discovery+ for a total of 3800 hours LIVE.
Gimbo, who won one of the 10 Italian gold medals in Tokyo 2020, a few minutes after Marcell Jacobs’ triumph on a legendary 1st August in our sporting history, is the testimonial of the Eurosport and Discovery+ Olympic campaigns to ignite the passion for the Games until the already highly anticipated day of the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony, when Tamberi will be the standard bearer of the Italian national team, flanked by the fencing champion Arianna Errigo.
Comments Gianmarco Tamberi, who is also the reigning world and European high jump champion: «Warner Bros. Discovery’s commitment to an audience that is increasingly passionate about the Olympic Games is fundamental for us athletes, who feed on their transport to achieve the best possible results. If I think about what I feel when I see my images of Tokyo 2020 on Eurosport again, well, the spirit of my participation in the Paris 2024 campaign is all here!”
Luca Stacul, Sports Director of Warner Bros. Discovery Italia, states: «Having Italy’s next standard-bearer as Olympic Ambassador makes us very proud. Tamberi is a myth of our sport, a symbol of resilience, longevity and athletic purity: values that have always been the basis of our editorial choices to convey the best of world sport”
The announcement of Tamberi Olympic Ambassador of Warner Bros. Discovery follows that of Dorothea Wierer Olympic talent in Paris 2024 exclusively for Eurosport. Icon of Italian biathlon, Dorothea will be part of an authoritative team of Eurosport Olympic correspondents to discover the Games due to her natural linguistic and sporting propensity as a global athlete.
Since producing its first Olympic Games in PyeongChang 2018, Warner Bros. Discovery has engaged an ever-increasing and record-breaking audience across Europe, confirming the success of its narrative storytelling applied to sport throughout the year. At Tokyo 2020, more than 372 million people in Europe watched the Olympic Games on Warner Bros. Discovery channels and platforms.