The triple Olympic medalist presents his autobiographical book ‘El Gran Salto’ in Barcelona, a personal catharsis in which he reveals his particular hell after retiring from sport and his story of overcoming
There are sweetened biographies, destined to pay homage, and others hard as flint, that emotionally tear the reader through their pages, but that give a real dimension to the character they try to portray. ‘El Gran Salto’, the autobiographical book of the triple Olympic medalist Gervasio Deferr is one of the latter. Written four hands with the journalist roger paschal, It is a story of overcoming and perseverance of one of the most charismatic athletes and with the best track record in the history of Spanish sport. A personal catharsis in which Gervi reveals his personal hell after retiring, his addictions to alcohol and drugs and the hard struggle to find a way out, as he revealed last February in an interview in El Periódico.
Deferr presented the book, edited by Peninsula, At a ceremony held on Thursday in The House of the Book, in Barcelonahosted by the RTVE journalist, River Dovean institution in the world of gymnastics, with whom he has a good relationship and the person who narrated, live, the three medals of the Catalan gymnast, the gold in jumping in the Games of Sydney-2000, the gold also of jump Athens-2004 and the silver on ground of Beijing-2008.
close to the abyss
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Just like he does in the book Deferr It opened up in the channel, in a conversation that was spinning with Paloma del Río herself and with Roger Pascual, before an audience of family and friends and also some former athletes, such as the former water polo player Jordi Sans, in which he accepted the errors and mistakes made in his career and admitted that he was close to the abyss before getting the help that has led him out of a dramatic situation.
“I am not afraid to tell it to the four winds because it is a way to heal myself and also, I hope, that it is a way to help others, so that they do not fall into the same mistakes that I made. I am happy with my gym in La Mina. That is my life now. I no longer want great victories, nor great defeats. Only the surprises that life gives you & rdquor ;, he summarized Deferr, who said he was happy with the result of the book, which he assured has been the result of a long and conscientious work of a year and a half of conversations with Paschal.