No French diver has yet qualified for the high jump final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Thibaut Collet, Robin Emig and Anthony Ammirati have all failed, although the latter has done so in a very peculiar way…
Who is Anthony Ammirati
Anthony Ammirati is an elite athlete from the French commune of Montauroux. He was born on 16 July 2003 and is a graduate of the Entente du Pays de Fayence Athlétisme. In 2021, at the European Athletics U20 Championships, he won a gold medal in the pole vault event.
This year, he became the youngest pole vaulter to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the age of 21.
In this competition, during the qualifying round for the pole vault final, Ammirati stopped at 5.60 m and failed to make it to the final. After passing the first two jumps, the goal for the third was to reach 5.70 m. France had pinned its hopes on him, as his personal best in the pole vault is 5.82 metres.
But the athlete has not succeeded and has knocked down the bar on three occasions, one of them due to a minor mishap…
ENVOL have expressed their regret on Instagram. “Fifth place in the qualification for the Paris Olympic Games with 5.60m. We are proud of you. Despite the last two weeks of being physically challenged, you managed to show up, even though we are frustrated like you about that 5.70m bar. We wish you an unforgettable Olympic experience,” they wrote.
Anthony Ammirati’s viral video
A video of Anthony Ammirati’s jump has been spreading rapidly on social media and has been the subject of numerous jokes.
In it, you can see how the athlete almost managed to get over the bar without knocking it over, although at the last moment he fell when it hit his penis. A small incident, at the worst possible moment…
Following this viral moment, which has reached millions of people around the world, the athlete has gained more than 50,000 followers on his Instagram profile.
