The Azzurri were perfect in their asymmetrical passes. The calculation of the split times of our four athletes: Jacobs (who touched a few meters more than all) was incredible with an 8 “925
We can see it with our own eyes, with those of the stopwatch at the millionth of a second at the Tokyo Olympics or through the lens of one of the 120 8K cameras placed along the track: in addition to having made us crazy with joy, the 4×100 won yesterday by the Azzurri is destined to occupy a chapter in future athletics manuals. Title: “The perfect relay”.
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We won Olympic gold in the most technical and painful test of the program launched by Lorenzo Patta, 21-year-old former Sardinian footballer who had never raced an important match abroad in his life.
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We won it with a fabulous last turn of Desalu, which has the 1751th time in the world on 100 meters (10 ”29) but when it comes to running with the center of gravity tilted to the left, he is among the strongest curve riders in the world. And then with Pippo Tortu, who got the best pitch of his life and Marcell Jacobs, who went faster than when he won the grand final, touching the 43 kilometers per hour at the 180 meters of the race.
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It will take days to decode the race data accurately, but some elements are already legible. Patta was only the sixth (out of eight) for reaction time to the shot (0 “154) but he was phenomenal in designing the ideal running line which, in the eighth lane, had to point straight to Jacobs’ hand, a seven-square-centimeter target that must be hit with precision by an archer. The manuals talk about the ideal time of sharing the aluminum stick around 20-30 cents, the Jamaicans (old Bolt in front of the TV will have howled for their mistakes) took a second, Lorenzo and Jacobs a tenth. TOTAL MEDALS
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The Japanese confusedly crossed witnesses, like the Americans in the semifinals: out of the race. Ours were perfect in their asymmetrical passages: right hand for Patta, left for Jacobs, right for Desalu who in turn pointed Tortu’s left hand because at the beginning of the final straight the change must throw the athlete inwards.
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The calculation of the partial times of the 4×100 is a complex exercise because the fractions are not all of the same length but the blue technicians, who provided us with the data, have a very trained eye. Lorenzo Patta raced his fraction in the corners and starting from a standstill in 10 “56, Jacobs (who touched a few meters more than all) was monstrous with an 8 ”925, Desalu held out (9 ”170) while Tortu was unleashed as never in his life: 8 ”845.
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Scholars (with a “formula” that we are not here to explain) exemplify the concept of “Union that makes strength” of the 4×100 relay with a number (in seconds) that they call the exchange rate and represents how the symbiosis between the four sprinters produces a better result than their individual records. The index made by the Azzurri yesterday (2 ”70) is the best among those scored by those who got on the podium in the last editions of the Games. Nothing happens by chance, especially in the relay.
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