Usain Bolt adamant on Marcell Jacobs: the Jamaican’s direct message

Still making noise is Marcell Jacobs’ failure to qualify for the world final of the 100-meter flat race, on the same track that four years ago saw him enter the legend with the first blue Olympic gold in the discipline. Trying to give him a piece of advice is the absolute phenomenon of the 100 meters, Usain Bolt, who in an’interview with ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’ answered the question about Jacobs in no uncertain terms.

“He has to figure out what is happening to him – said the recordman of athletics’s queen race, with a time of 9’58” achieved in 2009 and never even approached by other athletes since – He has to think about himself, his life and his routine. To recover in the right way from injuries, better to stop. Even for a long time”.

Jacobs, class of 1994, experienced his golden year in 2021, when he won the gold medal not only at the Tokyo Olympic Games in the 100 meters and the 4×100 relay, but also at the European Indoor Championships in Torun in the 60 meters and at the World Relays in Chorzow in the 4×100. Since then, however, she has achieved other important results, such as gold at the European Championships in the 100 meters in 2022 and 2024, and the continental gold in the relay a few months before the Paris Games.

The European Championships in the 100 meters in 2022 and 2024.

Just in Paris he had managed to qualify for the 100-meter medal race, but in what is universally recognized as one of the most competitive finals in history (just 12 hundredths of a gap between first and last place) he had not gone beyond fifth place, with a time of 9″85. Even before then, however, he was plagued by physical problems, which inevitably affected his results in the events he took part in after Paris 2024, including the World Championships being held in Tokyo.