Paris 2024 Olympics, Marcell Jacobs bluntly on his future

Marcell Jacobs sets next goals

Coming off a fifth-place finish in one of the fastest 100-meter Olympic finals in history (the last-place finisher, Jamaican Oblique Seville, ran 9.91), Marcell Jacobs looks beyond the 4×100 final to his next individual goals, stressing that he wants to set his sights not only on Los Angeles 2028, but also on several major events that will come before that.

"I’m confident that in Los Angeles we will arrive to take back that medal that didn’t è come here,” the Italian sprinter, who despite a 9.85 in the final didn’t è go on to medal and had to cede the Olympic scepter to Noah Lyles, told 'Sportmediaset' and at that point I might think about putting a stop to my career".

"Now is not yet the time,” he then clarified, “because I feel I can still give a lot and get great satisfaction starting next year where there's a World Championships on a very friendly track like Tokyo, where I got two gold medals. È a World Cup, è the only medal I am missing, so I am confident that we can recreate another four years at a high level".

"Despite being almost 30 years old, athletically I consider myself very young since the first few years of my career I pretty much 'played' without my squeezing myself to the end" added Jacobs, according to whom ageè è is just a number and therefore matters up to a point. Clearly, if at 16 you work like a 25-year-old, then at 30 you don’t get to the top of your game".