Paris 2024 Olympics, Larissa Iapichino in final in long jump
Paris 2024 Olympics, Larissa Iapichino in final in long jump
Larissa Iapichino qualifies very convincingly for the final of the women’s long jump at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
A 6.75 was needed to qualify directly, and the 22-year-old Florentine, after a 6.60 on her first attempt, jumped 6.87 on her second, behind only the U.S. Tara Davis-Woodhall, who landed at 6.90.
She took a big chance on what was perhaps è the big favorite for the gold, Germany’s Malaika Mihambo, but after two nulls è she came in at 6.86, the third measure, with as much as 30 centimeters given away to the batting board.
“È it was a good qualification, I liked myself that I hate competing in the morning,” said Larissa, “because I am an afternoon-evening kind of girl. But, all jokes aside, è it was beautiful becauseé I am finally an Olympic athlete too (she had to skip Tokyo 2020 due to injury, ed.) plus I am in the final. I put a lot of grit and enthusiasm into it, and I thought of me as a seven- to eight-year-old child when I dreamed of reaching such a goal. Now I am in the finals and will goò to play it as always, with the knife between my teeth".
