The Lamont Marcell Jacobs FACT thread

I notice that you neglected to state that Mr. Jacobs spent time training as a long jumper. He was long jumping until indoor 2018-2019. 10.08 three summer ago to 10.03 summer, 2019 to 9.80 today. Okay? What else do you have?

Which Olympic champion sprinters do you consider clean?

He was 10.08 in 2018

Track is fast so I dunno , maybe not outrageous

You guys are such a$$holes. Maybe he is doing. Maybe not. Why aren’t you guys flaming knighton, su, kurley and that LSU guy…?

8.48w long jumper prior to focusing on sprinting.

So is his name Lamont or Marcell? Seems like before he won his name was Lamont and now that he is the Italian Olympic champion of the 100m the media has now decided his first name is Marcell?

joro wrote:

Which Olympic champion sprinters do you consider clean?

I haven't given that much thought. Another poster a week or so ago, stated there are people looking into those matters. There are folks tracking activities of coaches and doctors of athletes. There are folks showing up to do surprise urinalysis tests. If you were to say testing and tracking coaches, doctors and trainers of athletes should increase by (10 to 15)%, I would be okay with that. That said, I am not going to label someone a drug cheat from going from 10.03 at age 24 to 9.80 at age 26. I thought many were saying the shoes and tracks are making sprinters and runners too fast?

'mopac wrote:

8.48w long jumper prior to focusing on sprinting.

Pretty good tail wind on that jump.

But his allowable wind jump is pretty good I think 26.5 ft.

T&F utility man (200-3000)m wrote:

I notice that you neglected to state that Mr. Jacobs spent time training as a long jumper. He was long jumping until indoor 2018-2019. 10.08 three summer ago to 10.03 summer, 2019 to 9.80 today. Okay? What else do you have?

If you have the talent to win the oly gold in 9.80, you don’t waste your time long jumping.

The 100 is the glamour event around the world. Anyone that had a glimmer of 9.80 natural talent would have been identified long before embarking on a long jump career.

+2.8 on that jump, which means what 8.30 with neutral wind. I don’t know on him tbh. Assuredly his progression is partially related to focusing on a different event.

At this point everything is speculation. You can accuse everyone of doping (and sadly it’s warranted given the nature and state of professional sports) but until the athlete tests positive, innocent until guilty.

Another question I have to ask how many olympic champs, particularly gold medalists in the sprints have tested positive after the games and had their medals taken away? We all know track isn’t a commercially popular sport, that’s why Bolt was seen as a god send for this sport and he made so much money, and supposedly got away with years of doping.

The chances of Lamont Marcell Jacobs testing positive is nearly zero imo… especially since he’s from a western country, if he was Russian or even Kenyan (not particularly two countries known for developing good sprinters) maybe he’d be in trouble.

Salvitore Stitchmo wrote:

So everyone, draw your own conclusions from these facts - the man that succeeded Usain Bolt as the Olympic Champion. No further comments.

This is your point? But yet you call it the 'fact' thread !!

You neglect to say that he completely focussed on the LJ until about 2018/9, so the 'progressions' to age 26 is irrelevant.

Come up with something better in order to accuse someone of doping. Perhaps something like "Jacobs didn't choose American nationality, therefore he must be a doper" . Its as ridiculous as your thread, but at least funnier.

BTW, his first name is Lamont, but he has always gone by his second name Marcell. No confusion there to me.

am i the only one that wondered why he didn’t seem particularly happy with the win, i mean his celebration was pretty tame. made me instantly think that he could be a doper, often dopers seem to celebrate less probably because they have some kind of bad conciseness nagging them despite being cheaters

Disko Eric wrote:

You guys are such a$$holes. Maybe he is doing. Maybe not. Why aren’t you guys flaming knighton, su, kurley and that LSU guy…?

I never said anything about doping pointed out facts and facts relative and relevant to the quality of athlete he is now part of history with. Or do these not matter? A$$hole.

Salvitore Stitchmo wrote:

Disko Eric wrote:

You guys are such a$$holes. Maybe he is doing. Maybe not. Why aren’t you guys flaming knighton, su, kurley and that LSU guy…?

I never said anything about doping pointed out facts and facts relative and relevant to the quality of athlete he is now part of history with. Or do these not matter? A$$hole.

You said "no further comments" in your opening monologue

How can we trust you

T&F utility man (200-3000)m wrote:

I notice that you neglected to state that Mr. Jacobs spent time training as a long jumper. He was long jumping until indoor 2018-2019. 10.08 three summer ago to 10.03 summer, 2019 to 9.80 today. Okay? What else do you have?

So your contention is that the long jump training took away from his real talent which was 100m running and it took him basically 10 years to figure this out?

I never realized it was just so easy to change events like for these guys. I mean fitting the Long Jump is on now - Juan Miguel Echevarria is jumping he has jumped 8.68 legal and 8.92w so I guess based off this logic he should just transition to the 100m where we should be expected a 9.6X?

I mean you guys understand this argument of "he was a long jumper until..." actually makes this even more ridiculous right and not the other way around?

I am Sam wrote:

Salvitore Stitchmo wrote:

So everyone, draw your own conclusions from these facts - the man that succeeded Usain Bolt as the Olympic Champion. No further comments.

This is your point? But yet you call it the 'fact' thread !!

You neglect to say that he completely focussed on the LJ until about 2018/9, so the 'progressions' to age 26 is irrelevant.

Come up with something better in order to accuse someone of doping. Perhaps something like "Jacobs didn't choose American nationality, therefore he must be a doper" . Its as ridiculous as your thread, but at least funnier.

BTW, his first name is Lamont, but he has always gone by his second name Marcell. No confusion there to me.

What in the original post was not fact. Point it out - let's see it. Or shut up.