The world of gymnastics has been in mourning since Tuesday, after studying of the loss of life of Gaël Da Silva, former high-level athlete. The native of Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône) died on the age of 41 after being the sufferer of a road accident Tuesday morning. Former member of the Pôle France of Lyon thenInephe had little by little specialised in flooring, excessive bar and rings, and he was important throughout theFrench team gymnastics within the 2000s.
If he had to surrender the Olympic Games from Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008 attributable to damage, he obtained a bronze medal on flooring in the course of the 2012 European Championships in Montpellier. An enormous efficiency which allowed him to expertise his first Olympic Video games immediately in London in 2012 (tenth on flooring and eighth by crew).
Married to a former Olympic athlete
Retrained as a technical-sales consultant after the top of his profession as a high-level sportsman (in 2013), “Gaou” died out of the blue on Tuesday. His former teammate throughout the Blues Yann Cucherat mentioned he was “devastated” by this deadly accident to the Progress.
“The unimaginable violence of this information, for a boy so younger, touches me. We met at Pôle France in Lyon, he was an endearing individual, very beneficiant. The crew was in his eyes extra essential than him,” signifies the present normal supervisor of excessive efficiency at the National Sports Agency (ANS). Father of three youngsters, Hugo (12 years outdated), Jules (9 years outdated) and Lou (6 years outdated), Gaël Da Silva was married to Camille Dirt Da Silvagymnast who participated within the Athens Video games in 2004.
