The tickets for Paris are giant and have “qualified” written on them, they give the certainties needed at this time of year and Italy takes home three solid passes in a single day at the Relay World Championships.
In Nassau, where the organization of the event is imaginative but the climate is ideal, the Azzurri find a safe place in Paris in the 4×100 which can defend the extraordinary title and in the two 4×400. The women’s 4×100 goes to the repechage which grants another six places, as does the mixed 4×400, one of the races that the IOC added to mix the genders and guarantee equal entry quotas for men and women and the choice could have been studied better. It is difficult to find many nations that have such an abundance of four hundred runners in their teams. We try again anyway, even there, where it is more complicated to find a place.
The relay format is ideal for our sprinters who in the heat with the USA (37″49) finished second in 38″14: it is the fourth time overall behind the United States dragged by Bednarek in the second fraction (8″91) and Lyles in last (8″95), Japan (38″10) and Canada (38″11), as predicted and it was the objective but also the only possible place, therefore a result not to be taken for granted and managed with a certain craft. Quartet forced by call-ups and slight injuries (see Simonelli): on the track there are the same men who took silver in Budapest, a guarantee. Rigali (10″63) passes to Jacobs who confirms himself as the key man for every result in the 4×100 (9″04), then it’s Patta’s turn, he only appears on these occasions and never makes mistakes (9″19, he is the best third team member ) and Tortu closes (9”28). We had to stay focused and not make mistakes, the mission is accomplished. Now the finals will define the medals, the prizes (40 thousand dollars for gold up to 2000 for the eighth place) and also the Olympic lanes, Italy is the reigning champion and goes into the start with this awareness.
We demonstrate that we honor the level at which we are listed. The men’s 4×400, always dynamic, with the addition of the twenty-year-old Sito in addition to the well-tested Aceti, Scotti and Re, wins the heat in 3’01”68, the sixth overall time. The women’s 4×400, always little considered, with Borga, Folorunso, Trevisan and Mangione takes the heat in 3’26”28, the fourth time trial of the session.
The girls in the 4x100m were a little subdued: Dosso, Kaddari, Bongiorni and Pavese finished in 43″08 and on other occasions (the European podium, fourth place in the world) they showed better. There remains one turn to exploit to overcome obstacles and mistakes. In this match it is above all incredible to see that Jamaica decided to snub the event. On the night in which Sherika Jackson made her home country debut in a convincing 100 of 11″03 (+1.8), the nation that has the fastest women around leaves them all at home. Only the men of the 4×100 qualify. The rest is missing.
Still sprint Africa is determined which has already made itself noticed in individual competitions and continues to offer a stratospheric Tebogo. For Botswana, she runs the 4×400 in a 43″49 fourth leg, taking her from seventh to first place ahead of South Africa. Tebogo is 20 years old and, at the moment, he is the only one who goes at a different pace: not only towards Paris but within Paris. An application.
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