In 2021 he would have Marcell’s reports checked, without finding traces of doping. Filippo: “I foreign”
They had loved each other so much. Indeed, no. Never again than necessary. Filippo Tortu and Marcell Jacobs have characters, personal stories and lived too different to really be friends. Add to the (healthy) sports rivalry – the first of eleven direct clashes dates back to the distant 2016, when they were kids – and here the picture is complete. Good relationships, for heaven’s sake. Not idyllic. Then, of course: the two, together, also lived great joys. One above all: that of the Tokyo Olympic gold of 6 August 2021 with the 4×100 relay. With Marcell, in the second fraction, to fly on the wings of the enthusiasm of the individual title on the 100 conquered five days before and Pippo, last, to sign one of the most legendary comebacks in the history of sport, which the British, mocking practically among the photocells of the finish line, still rosican.
the facts
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Until yesterday. Until the revelations of Il Fatto Quotidiano who, on page 3, reported a real spy story with indirect protagonists the two top men of the blue speed. A premise: one, tortu, compete for the yellow flames, the sports group of the Guardia di Finanza; the other, Jacobs, for the gold flames, that of the State Police. The story involves Tortu’s older brother, Giacomo. The 32 -year -old former Sprinter -21 “05 on 200 in 2015 – Today President of the Club Raptors Milano, is not investigated. But in 2021 he would have turned to the security company and equolize investigations to obtain information on suspected illegal practices of Jacobs. Equalize, no later than last October, jumped to the honors of the national chronicles because it was the subject of a judicial investigation, coordinated by the prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi, for illegal access to institutional databases, with “spied on” important personalities of different fields. Jacobs included. Giacomo, according to the reconstruction suggested by the words of the former policeman Carmine Gallo, subject investigated within the story, would have presented himself in the Offices of Equalize, in via Pattari, in Milan, accompanied by a lawyer. Filippo’s brother, according to the documents, would have asked – through various intermediaries – to be able to have access to the medical records and the reports of the marcells of Marcell, as well as the phone calls and chats between Jacobs himself and his staff, namely The coach and the nourishing chat of the time, Paolo Camossi and Giacomo Strone, as well as to the manager – also current – Marcello Magnani. Cost of the operation: 10,000 euros. Doping tests or other, in the end: none.
reactions
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In the hours following the publication of the “noisy” article, none of the involved understandably wants to speak. “I learned the news from the media – comments Filippo Tortu through a press note – I trust that the facts are clarified as soon as possible and that my name is not associated with events from which they are totally foreign”. Jacobs also relies on a short press release: “Waiting for further details and checks I gave my lawyer mandate to evaluate the legal profiles, as a possible injured party”. Marcell, after the renunciation for influence to the 60 of the millrose games on Saturday in New York, returned to the base of Jacksonville, Florida, where he started training, even if he is not yet 100%. In a couple of weeks he will return to Italy, where he will finish the preparation for the EurOindoor of Apeldoorn, in the Netherlands, of 6-9 March. Filippo, however, after the January rally in Tenerife, in view of the outdoor season, works as always between Milan, Giussano and Bergamo.
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