AP Interview: Italy coach says Jacobs can run much faster
By ANDREW DAMPFAugust 2, 2021 GMT
TOKYO (AP) The 26-year-old Texas-born Italian sprinter who surprised everyone by winning the 100 meters at the Tokyo Olympics might just be getting started.
Antonio La Torre, the head coach of Italy’s track and field team, believes Marcell Jacobs can run as fast as few men besides Usain Bolt ever have.
“With his infinite talent I dare to say that he’s a man who can run close to 9.70 or maybe even faster,” La Torre told The Associated Press on Monday, a day after Jacobs registered a personal-best 9.80 seconds to succeed Bolt as Olympic champion, otherwise known as The World’s Fastest Man.
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THE JOURNEY TO an Olympic Games is one like no other. Exhilarating highs to gut-wrenching lows; good days and bad days; blood, sweat and tears.
It’s one a very limited amount of people across the world get to experience, and even fewer achieve that monumental feat of reaching the destination.
Belgian decathlete Jente Hauttekeete (© AFP / Getty Images)
When 18-year-old Jente Hauttekeete lined up for a low-key heptathlon in Frankfurt on 13 February, his goal was simply to get close to the Belgian U20 record.
Instead, he stole the show, collected the national U20 record, and with a score of 6062 became the first ever U20 athlete to exceed 6000 points, breaking the 11-year-old world U20 heptathlon record.
The spotlight in Frankfurt was due to be on the duel between 2020 German indoor champion Andreas Bechmann and European U20 decathlon champion Simon Ehammer from Switzerland, both of whom were seeking to qualify for the European Indoors in Torun a few weeks later. Ehammer had made the last-minute decision to compete after no-heighting in the pole vault the previous weekend. But at the end of the first day of competition, the attention had shifted away from the senior athletes and towards the young Belgian in the field, as rumours began to circulate of a world U20 record.