The Tokyo Olympic champion competes in the 100 at the Turku meeting in Finland. “My season starts from here, everything is going well.” In the same event also Furlani in the long and the Italian neoprimatist of the 100hs, Carmassi
Marcell Jacobs nine months later. The Olympian, forgetting the extemporaneous indoor appearance of February 2 in Boston on 60 (a 6 “63 and a 6” 69 too opaque to be true), returns to the race today, Tuesday 17 June. From 9 September there is missing when, at the end of a very intense season, made of fourteen 100 and five 4×100, the individual specialty in 10 “12 ran. Report in Turku, in Finland, a town overlooking the Baltic Sea and which does not forget to celebrate the most illustrious citizen: the 63rd edition of the Paavo Normi Games – The Finnish Flying, between Anversa 1920 and Amsterdam 1928, in the bottom. He made his nine Olympic golds – they are a Gold stage of the Continental Tour.
Jacobs precedents
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Brescia, in those parts, is a habitué: it is in fact among the stars of the appointment for the fourth time. In 2019 he was third in 10 “13, in 2020 he won in 10” 11. Until June 18 a year ago: 9 “99 in battery and a sparkling 9” 92 in the final, record of the meeting of the American Charleston improved by 3/100 and, at the time – before the Olympic exploits of Paris – second performance of the career. With, behind, a surprising guituru wings. Como, with 9 “96, became the second Italian of all time and the third under the 10” wall “. Marcell, unlike this time, was in full business: he had already raced in “his” Jacksonville at the end of April (10 “11), at the Sprint Festival in Rome in mid -May (10” 07), in Ostrava and Oslo ten and twelve days later (10 “19 and 10” 03) and, above all, at the Capitoline European Championships where – 10 “05 in the semifinal, 10” 02 in the final – he had beaten the title won in Monaco. Bavaria 2022. Adding that of the relay.
Double round Jacobs
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“I love this environment and the track of the Meeting (just regenerated, editor’s note) – said the blue during the traditional press conference on the eve, held in a local in Nantali, near the hotel that acts as a general fifteen -fifteen -east of the east of the Games, a citizen of the East of Turku – I have excellent memories, especially related to the experience of twelve months ago. It will be a long season: I start from here. At his side, other expected protagonists of the evening: the Swedish discourage Daniel Stahl, the Sprinter Luxembourgese Patricia Van der Weken and the Swiss hindrance Ditaji Kambunji. Marcell has chosen to make his debut here precisely because, if everything goes as in the forecasts, he will be able to run twice: at 5.51 pm (18.51 local) in battery, together with the Australian Browning, the South African Richardson and the Japanese Sani Brown, training companion. And then, possibly, at 7.06 pm, in the final, where the always punctual Canadian De Grasse could also find (left the Jacobs group, was followed by Mike Holloway in Gainesville), the American King, the Ghanase Azamati and the British Glave. In case of wind, as happened in the last edition, you can compete on the straight opposite to the arrival.
Jacobs programs
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The forecasts speak of the same 18 degrees last year, but with partly cloudy skies. Marcell has been in Turku since Sunday, after a couple of days spent in Munich for the usual check with Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt, from which in these hours it is also the same wings. “With the Tokyo World Championships so far from the usual calendar – explains the policeman, on Wednesday heard as ‘offended person’ in the investigation into the alleged spying against him, with Giacomo Toru, Filippo’s brother, investigated – will be necessary to manage himself at the best. Reason in the present and I take one step at a time. I have already said: the golden irritated gold is the only one who is missing, the other will be. Because my calendar is only partially defined: Friday I will return to the marbles of Rome for the Sprint Festival (two other sprints in just over an hour together with Patta, Desalu, Melluzzo, Ceccarelli, Rigali and Randazzo, ed), the following weekend at the European teams in Madrid. I will have to check the reactions of my physique “. Meanwhile, like when he was a boy, he will base in Desenzano.
Turku Meeting
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There are seven blues at the Normi Games (direct Sky Sport one at 6 pm). In addition to Jacobs, the wait is above all for Mattia Furlani who in the long run who to the Golden Gala, with 8.34, mocked him at the last jump of the race, the Australian Liam Adcock (Monday 7.97 in Hengelo). Fari also on Giada Carmassi in the 100 hs: the Friulian Sunday, in Stockholm, with a super performance, brought the Italian record to 12 “69. In the race then Visa synta and, at the seasonal debut, Gaia Sabbatini in the 1500s, Elisa Molinarolo in the auction and Sara Fantini in the hammer together with the gold and the Olympic silver, the Canadian Camryn Rogers and the American Annex. Echikunwoke.
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