ROMA – A bad night for the “golden twins” of Tokyo. Gianmarco Tamberi third in the high jump with 2.27 and ready to apologize in front of the Curva Sud full for him like at the European Championships in June. Marcell Jacobs late from the middle of the race onwards, even giving up in the last stretch of the 100 meters. The Golden Gala was not the celebration that was expected for the two jewels of Italian athletics, on an evening in which the winner for the Azzurri was the last to arrive Andy Diaz HernandezOlympic bronze in Paris who after the success in Florence a year ago jumped 17.32 in the triple jump. Tired Lorenzo Simonellisixth in the 110m hurdles in 13”34 in the stadium where he won the European Championships with an Italian record, growing Nadia Battocletti, silver in the 10,000 in Paris, in an unprecedented distance like the 1,500, for the first time under four minutes (3’59”19, eleventh). The evening was full of top-level races, including the 3,000 steeplechase in which Winfred Yavi del Bahrein she missed the world record by just 7 hundredths (8’44”39), and the 100m hurdles in which the Jamaican Ackera Nugent achieved the fourth best performance ever in 12”24. But in fact, the two most anticipated were especially below par, held in the unforgettable embrace of Tokyo.
Ten centimetres less, for Tamberi, compared to the triumphal evening of the European Championships in Rome. The return to the Olimpico was not as brilliant as Gimbo wanted, the physical and mental condition is not comparable to that of June, the final 2.27 that earned him third place behind the Korean Woo, the Jamaican Beckford and tied with the Ukrainian Doroshchuk says a lot about the moment of the former Olympic champion after the disappointment of Paris. “I’m so sorry, the South curve was like at the European Championships. It’s fantastic to see the people so charged, it’s me who wasn’t up to the level of the public. I didn’t feel the right sensations, evidently the tiredness of the race in Poland (2.31) had an impact, it’s all an up and down in this period. I apologize to those who came. At a certain point I saw my wife and I felt like saying “I’m stopping now”. This is the reason why I should stop now, even if I’ve committed to some races. I still haven’t digested Paris, I wasn’t expecting a race like this. It’s too heavy a period to make decisions”.
Tamberi in Rome for the Golden Gala: “I’m better after the calculations. Los Angeles Olympics? Maybe. In the meantime I want a daughter and I’ll get my faith back soon”
by Mattia Chiusano
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Marcell Jacobs was not smiling as usual at the start, he stayed on the line of the best at the start, then he faded halfway through the race, and even gave up twenty meters from the end, almost annoyed (and still finished in 10”20). To win Tebogo Botswana in 9”87, Americans also under ten Coleman (9’’92) e Kerley (9”95). “The Olimpico is always magnificent, nothing else to add. It was a shitty day, from the moment I woke up I understood that it was a bad day, and not just my fault… my biceps were hard, I couldn’t manage the warm-up as I would have liked, there was no point in hurting myself for nothing”.
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– 2024-09-01 20:00:29
