Marcell Jacobs won Italian champs in 10.12 on Friday. Can he be a player at Worlds?

rojo · 2022-06-27T23:25:42-04:00

Ran 10.17 (+0.3) and then 10.12 (-0.9) on Friday.I've got 3 takeaways.1) It's a good sign he was able to do two races despite his recent injuries.2) He's not that far off where he was last year. Last year, he won the Italian champs in 10.01 (-1.0) and ran 10.05 (-0.8) on July 4th less than a month from his Olympic gold (August 1). He didn't break 10.00 for the first time in his life until July 9th. 23 days later, he was the Olympic champ. But it's still a tighter window this year as the 100 final this year is on July 17th, so that was 22 days from the Italian champs. If the Worlds are when they normally are, I think he'd be fine. He's really pushing up against it this year if he's hoping to repeat but I think he'll be sub-10 for sure. Would it shock anyone if he skips Worlds and focuses on Eurpos? I hope not. Let's hope he uses Worlds to build to that..3) If only the US stars loved to compete like this guy and ran World Indoors and their national champs when they didn't have Race videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kizQTmY9aE

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3 years ago 06/29/2022 9:22pm EDT

re: Salvitore Stitchmo

He did this 40+ years ago...

3 years ago 06/29/2022 11:06pm EDT

re: Deno

I keep getting this feeling something is going to happen and our Texan bails out if it takes faking injury.

Classic....15 minutes of fame....deal.

3 years ago 06/30/2022 2:18am EDT

re: Deno

Deno wrote:
I keep getting this feeling something is going to happen and our Texan bails out if it takes faking injury.
Classic....15 minutes of fame....deal.

He has dealt with injuries his whole career. For minimum 6 years it was the hamstring. Think there were some knees injuries in there as well.

It's why he made the switch from the long jump in the first place. But an injury-prone athlete will remain injury-prone, and I fear he will continue to struggle.

Those talking fake injuries have not been watching this man's struggles since 2014. Huge talent but injury prone.

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