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Óscar Casas Stars in ‘El Gran Salto’ as Gervasio Deferr, an Olympic Hero Battling Inner Demons
Atresmedia, Diagonal TV series blends real Olympic footage and dramatized turmoil, exploring the delicate balance of success and failure.
The show’s structure reflects this, alternating between Deferr’s struggles—illustrated in Episode 1 by a sequence moving from the hedonism of a drug fuelled club session to his later collapse in his flat, all while he should be at his mother’s bedside as she fights for her life — combined with flashbacks to his competitive glory days. “We developed the entire structure of the script with the ebb and flow starting from the ‘present’ in 2017 when Gervi begins the story in the after-party, and then we go back to when he is preparing for his first Olympics in Sydney 2000. The series taps a broader conversation around mental health in sports, a subject brought to the fore in recent years by athletes like Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka.
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