Jacobs tries the blocks, Friday the heats. Camossi: “Everything under control”

The countdown is about to expire. A few more days and then, on the glorious Hayward Field track, the engines will roar. Ready-to-go and on Friday, in the first of ten days of world championship races, it will be the turn of the two most anticipated blues: Marcell Jacobs and Gianmarco Tamberi. To break the ice it will be up to the Olympic champion of the high, at 10.10 in Eugene (19.10 in Italy) called to overcome the qualification towards the final at twelve on Monday. The relationship with dad-coach Marco is at least for the moment reconnected. The two, in Oregon, have been working together in the last few days, including a technical session.

Test-starter

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The situation of Jacobs is different: the heats of the 100, on Friday, will begin at 18.50 local time, 3.50 on the Italian night on Saturday, with the semifinals and final scheduled for the next day. Marcell spent ten days in Portland, 175km further north, training in Beaverton, at the headquarters of Nike, his technical sponsor. By the hour and expected in Eugene, also because this morning the “starter test” is scheduled, that is a session of exits from the blocks at the command of the pistol operated by the official judges. Then, at 15.00, 24.00 in Italy, together with the director Antonio La Torre, Tamberi and other Azzurri, he is expected at Asics Hall, at the Erb Memorial Union, a structure that will host the blue communication activities, at the launch press conference. of the review.

“Under control”

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Regarding his condition, after the many weeks lost due to the quadriceps injury of the left leg, no one is unbalanced. Not even the coach Paolo Camossi, a sort of shadow of the Brescia policeman, not only on the pitch. “The situation – says the Gorizia technician – is under control. Fortunately, everything is going well. Marcell is working properly. Go on”. The double gold of Tokyo, according to the videos posted on their social accounts in recent days, which often proposed it in full thrust on the track submerged by the green of the campus, between stretches and accelerations, appears in excellent shape. But impressions are one thing, reality is another. Especially when among the opponents to be challenged, in addition to athletes such as the Canadian De Grasse, the Kenyan Omanyala, the Jamaicans Blake and Seville and the South African Simbine, there are four Americans of the caliber of Kerley (the man to beat), Coleman, Bromell and Bracy who, at home, will sell their lives dearly. A few more hours of waiting: then the truth will emerge powerfully. The track doesn’t lie.