The Italian sprinter, reigning Olympic champion, came in second in the heat. But he is not satisfied: “I didn’t like myself at all”
Paris, August 3, 2024 – “I didn’t like it at all, the sensations weren’t great, but I told myself that today it was just the drums. I was heavy in the first part of the race, I couldn’t let myself go as I wanted, but qualifying was important and tomorrow will be another day. When you qualify it’s always good, we’ll try to correct the two things that in quotation marks didn’t go well“. He said this to Rai microphones Marcell Jacobsreigning Olympic champion in the 100 metres, at the end of the heat of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in the specialty in which he came in second, still securing a pass to the semi-final.
“The track is good if you can activate your feet, as I did not do: you can run fast. I have not seen the opponents, I will watch and try to understand who to be more careful of tomorrow. I would be lying if I said that I am here just to be here, the moment I entered the audience applauded and tomorrow I will try to give something to myself and the audience“, underlined the Italian athlete.
“I’ll have to run faster”
“Impressions? So-so, I didn’t start as I would have liked and this didn’t allow me to find the rhythm in the second part of the race but the goal today was to pass the heat, save as much energy as possible and tomorrow we will have to start much more determined and strong. They all showed that they can run really fast, tomorrow there will be only 8 places, there are many who can aspire to this final and we will have to make no mistakes and push to 100%”added Jacobs.
“They all pushed hard, they didn’t do incredible times anyway but they are the batteries and tomorrow they will arrive with a different mentality and energy and it will be hard work. The track is actually fast but you have to interpret it in the right way. I started a bit too hard without looking for agility, and I wasn’t able to exploit it as I would have liked but tomorrow that will be the goal.. I had this start that didn’t allow me to find the frequencies I would have liked in the running phase“, concluded the Italian sprinter. (source: Adnkronos, photo: @italiateam)
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