OSTRAVA. Marcel Jacobs’ race in the 100 meters at the Ostrava meeting did not go well. On a track wet due to bad weather, the Garda policeman who won gold at the Tokyo Games took third place, running in 10″19. The race was won by 200m Olympian André De Grasse, a Canadian who is Jacobs’ training partner in Florida, in 10″10, ahead of the Jamaican Ryiem Forde, who ran in 10″17.
«I’m not worried, because I feel my legs going and that they can go much faster, but now we have to put all the pieces together. Today didn’t go bad: it went very badly.” This is the bitter comment of Marcell Jacobs after third place in the 100 meters at the meeting in Ostrava, in the Czech Republic, with a time of 10″19. «After 40 meters I felt I was in an incorrect running position. I started to losing my legs at the back and from that moment I struggled. I expected completely different sensations, I didn’t have power and speed – he added – But I think the first part has improved: now I have to put it together with the second. We have Oslo in two days and we will try to do it, to try to run strong in view of the European Championships in Rome. A lot has changed in the last few months, I haven’t made many things automatic yet, it will still take some time.”
Jacobs aside, Italy shone in Ostrava. Three victories thanks to the rediscovered Alessandro Sibilio (Fiamme Gialle), first in the 400 hurdles in 48″25, best time of the season awaiting Thursday’s debut in Oslo of the ‘Viking’ Karsten Warholm, Leonardo Fabbri (Air Force) in the shot put with 22.40 meters, and Federico Riva (Fiamme Gialle) who with a masterful sprint took the 1500 meters in 3’33″53 just three hundredths from the standard for the Olympics. In the women’s 100 meters Zaynab Dosso (Fiamme Azzurre) came third in 11″18 behind the Polish Ewa Swoboda (11″05) and the Gambian Gina Bass (11″14).
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