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Melwin Lycke Holm is Sweden’s most promising high jumper.
Now he opens up about the talked-about image that the whole athletics world is talking about.
– It’s completely insane, he’s not really wise, says the 19-year-old.
For several years, expectations have been high Melvin Lycke Holm. He broke through at a young age as a super talent and one of the world’s best high jumpers on the youth side.
Holm chases the Olympics
If you are Stefan Holmes son and also has the father as a coach, the basic conditions are perfect to reach the top of the world. Now everyone is waiting for the really big breakthrough as a senior and the dream is to reach the summer Olympics in Paris in 2024.
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So far, 19-year-old Melwin has jumped 2.18m as the highest and he still has some distance to go to the world elite. The reigning Olympic and World Cup gold medallist Gianmarco Tamberi is the man everyone is chasing and now the Italian has caused enormous reactions in the world of athletics.
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The 31-year-old has now shared a controversial image on social media, where he has lost five kilos in just three weeks with 200 days to go until the Olympics.
“The Olympic year has begun and the first training camp is over. The goal? To leave as little as possible to chance,” writes Tamberi on Instagram, see the picture below.
Melwin Lycke Holm now gives his honest view on the talked-about image and the champion’s extreme diet.
– I have seen that picture. Why he does it now, during training season, I have no idea. But there is a lot Tamberi does that I have no idea why he does it. I would think that he is just testing himself, to train himself into shape to see how he feels, says the Swedish talent to Expressen.
“Shocking”
The 19-year-old cannot understand why Tamberi wants to lose so much weight before the Summer Olympics.
– It is completely insane. I don’t really know what he’s up to, he’s not really smart. But at the same time, he has achieved great success. Perhaps it is based on an infinite faith in what he does, says Lycke Holm to the evening newspaper.
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The world champion has also opened up about his attention-grabbing weight race. Tamberi admits that he works intensively with a dietitian and how important it is to his competitive season.
– My diet is terrible, it’s shocking, he says in an interview with GQ magazine.
– I always come to important competitions after months of strict dieting. In Budapest (Athletics World Championships 2023) I weighed 73.9 kilos, which is one of the lowest I’ve weighed.
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Then it was WC gold for a thin Gianmarco Tamberi and apparently he wants to repeat the success diet to win another Olympic gold this summer.
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