The final of the 4×100 men relay: Italy fields Marcell Jacobs, Filippo Tortu, Eseosa Desalu and Lorenzo Patta and hits the fifth gold of athletics in Tokyo
From our correspondent
TOKYO — the Olympics of our desires.
Ask, and it will be given to you.
And therefore, on the day of the triumph of Antonella Palmisano in the 20 km walk to Sapporo, and that of Luigi Bus in karate, Italy takes another, incredible, crazy, unimaginable gold (the fifth, tenth in total, which makes the medal table jump to 38 podiums, an absolute record): the fast relay, indeed very fast, which by printing the new national record (37 “50) of the 4×100 on the time trial grabs the gold on the finish line of a team that further rounds off the dimension of Italy among the great world powers.
the triumph of Lorenzo Patta, Marcell Jacobs (which enriches the personal collection with a legendary gold encore), Fausto Desalu and Filippo Tortu, the last fractionist called to concretize the work of others.
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6 AUGUST 2021: ITALY WINS THE 4X100 RELAY ???
Lorenzo Patta, Marcell Jacobs, Eseosa Desalu and Filippo Tortu: are you the men of the LEGEND ?????#HomeOfTheOlympics | #Tokyo2020 | #ItaliaTeam | #Athletics pic.twitter.com/r7hTMzYrT1
— Eurosport IT (@Eurosport_IT) August 6, 2021
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When Desalu, fresh from the curve, hands Filippo the baton on the final straight, Pi Veloce is very good at not letting China slip away and suck Great Britain with a screaming pitch, which allows him to arrive paired and, with a last flash of lucidity, to throw himself on a woolen thread with the readiness that the Englishman does not have. A matter of thousandths of a second, which decide the race and our destiny in Tokyo 2020.
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We are Italy, an absolute strength in the sprint, the Olympic champion of the 100 dressed in blue, his name is Marcell Jacobs, he received the baton from Patta and ran a second leg of the perfect 4×100, delivering the Holy Grail to Desalu and making a cross that Tortu did not waste, finally all height of his talent in a season that for him, inspired by his teammate’s triumph, took off at the right time, here in Tokyo.
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We hugged in the night of Jacobs and Tamberi, we did it in Sapporo with the two gold medals of the march, we continue to do it tonight with a team capable of putting behind us, beyond Great Britain, the Canada of De Grasse gold in the 200.
Gone are the adjectives, emotions are scarce, even dreams are exhausted. All, without exception, made.
It remains alone Fly, gives singing loudly until they kick us out of here, yestadio of our desires.
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