Marcell Jacobs at home, 4×100 dominates anyway
In Florence Patta, Melluzzo, Desalu and Tortu run a good time that allows them to climb positions in the rankings leading up to the World Championships.
In Florence Patta, Melluzzo, Desalu and Tortu run a good time that allows them to climb positions in the rankings leading up to the World Championships.
The American sprinter won the 200-meter race on the track in the Qatari capital in a comeback. The Italian had already announced his absence.
Gold medalist 4×100 team debuts in Tokyo on Sunday; among those selected are Tortu, Desalu and Patta.
“United group, we want to prove we deserved the Tokyo gold.”
The blue champion decided to respond to the world champion’s many barbs.
“As a child I was a volunteer, my Academy is a dream come true.”
The new blue relay team meeting will be held in Rome, between the Paolo Rosi and the Farnesina.
“My coach says that on the pitch I can keep, given my technical characteristics, and I trust him.”
Olympian still knocked out: ‘I was in pain but gave 110%’
“Today the batteries were held really early, but that’s the way it is for everyone.”
Nearly six hundred athletes (593) from 47 nations, four days of competition (March 2-5), seven Olympic champions between track and platforms.
Here are the call-ups for the continental indoor event in Turkey (March 2-5): the presence of Olympic champion, world bronze medalist Elena Vallortigara stands out in the team.
The new indoor 60-meter champion: “Given my structure, I can also have a good throw.”
The Italian sprinter was mocked by Tuscany’s Samuele Ceccarelli in the 60-meter final of the Italian Indoor Championships.
The coach of the blue champion is not at all worried about the second place in Lievin.
“Physically I’m fine, I have no problems. But I didn’t have good feelings: I struggle to be fluid and decontracted, to let go.”
The Italian sprinter had to surrender to Kenyan Ferdinand Omanyala, who beat him in a comeback.
The entries for the Italian Absolute Indoor Championships on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 are online.
“No record is out of reach. My opponents I know well by now.”
The calendar in the indoor season is beginning to emerge.
Among women, the joy is for Elena Vallortigara, a splendid bronze medalist at the World Championships in Eugene.
The Olympic 100 and 4×100 champion chose the destination for his training from Dec. 29 to Jan. 28.
“A couple of years ago this comparison might have seemed irreverent, today it no longer is, and it is a sign of how far Marcell has entered the public imagination.”
Sprint legend and Olympic 100 champion together for the first time.
“Goals? I want to do well at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul in early March. Then there will be the World Outdoor Championships: that’s the only medal I’m missing, it’s the goal of the year.”
“I try to be an example for them,” says the champion.
“The goal is to become familiar with the distance in next year’s meetings.”
It is called “On the Shoulders of Giants” the event organized in Padua by Fiamme Oro, Assindustria Sport and Aics Veneto and aimed at boys and girls from the youth sectors of Padua’s athletics clubs.
Jamaican outfielder blunt: “My record can’t be beaten by anyone.”
The blue sprinter plans his future: ‘First and foremost I aim for the outdoor World Cup’