Marcell Jacobs and the return to the national team
Marcell Jacobs in Azure
Before gliding over the Olympic stadium in Rome, where in a little over four weeks will take place a truly meaningful edition of the European Championships, Italian Athletics is indulging in one last passage through five circles: the World Relays in Nassau (Bahamas), the rainbow relay trophy that from this year will have the flavor of a real pre-Olympic tournament. Because here, on Saturday and Sunday, as many as 14 of the 16 Olympic passes up for grabs in each of the five specialties involving the baton will be awarded.
“È a decisive step in the season leading up to the ’Olympics – says the Technical Director of the blue teams, Antonio La Torre – : given the number of athletes involved, è also obvious is the impact on the composition of our Olympic team. On balance, up to 30 summonses for the five-ring event” could be determined here in Nassau.
Marcell Jacobs also returns to the Azzurri, after the decisive change of direction decided in the fall (separation from coach Paolo Camossi, and transfer to Jacksonville, Florida, to be followed by the American Rana Reider): “Marcell’s return to the national team è was one of the best moments of the preparation period spent by the team in Miami. In essence, è it was as if he had never left. It è immediately rebuilt the extraordinary climate that in recent years has produced the results we know, the Olympic title in Tokyo, but also the beautiful world silver in Budapest last year. And in this group, in addition to Jacobs, I like to emphasize how the young people were immediately integrated: è a sign of the fact that, even in continuity, we manage to produce significant changes”. Nassau però è is also a tricky passage: “No one will give usà nothing, results will have to be won on the field. Rather, there would be something to be said about the regulations that will define the starting grid, especially in the 4×100. The boys have the second best time of the’year, and instead it will be taken into account an arzigogical mechanism, which counts not only the relay times, but also the individual…times.
I do not know where you want to go to with these mechanisms so complicated, we may end up with unexpected companies in the battery…”.
On’Italian Athletics, in this golden phase, the sun really never seems to set: while in Florida we were preparing for the relays confrontation, in Modena, on the May 1 holiday, è came the resounding 22.88 of Leonardo Fabbri in the shot put (with Zane Weir at 21.93). Measure that makes even more substantial the hopes of the Florentine colossus, already world silver last year in Budapest. “It’ was a resounding throw, indeed, into hyperspace, that of Fabbri. With Weir’s excellent 21.93, kudos must be given for an excellent job to coach Paolo Dal Soglio. But also deserving of mention is Yeman Crippa, who set the Italian 10km road record at 27:08, missing the European record by just one second. Federica Del Buono and Nadia Battocletti also did well. The’effervescence of Italian athletics is confirmed: è a fact that satisfies, but we must remain focused on the’goal”
