Jacobs, the Reider treatment works: the Paris Olympics await him

At 60 meters Marcell Jacobs he was sixth, at 80 he was on the same line as De Grasse And Bromell, at the finish line he was first with the same time as the Canadian. Mission accomplished: on the team Rana Reider there is satisfaction with what was seen on Saturday, concrete proof that the work carried out since November in Jacksonville is returning the Olympic 100m champion to athletics. The care of the Tumbleweed Track Club is working, as far as one can understand such a naive debut, with the direction of the race reversed due to the wind, the photo finish which first gave Bromell the win and then after half an hour De Grasse, the reaction times not recorded. Jacobs felt good physically, he developed impressive acceleration but the start is still not going well. If he fixes it, his entourage is convinced, he will fall well below the 10”11 of the East Coast Relays.

Rivals don’t go below 10 seconds

Meanwhile the world of speed seems to be waiting for him. The samples seen in Jacksonville, including the Japanese Sani Brown, they didn’t beat him or fell behind. But neither did the other half of the sprint sky, gathered in China at the Diamond League meeting in Suzhou, fall below a net ten: Simbine he ran in 10”01, Coleman in 10”04, while in 10”11, the same time as Marcell, his great rival expressed himself Kerley. As for Lyles, it’s almost time to see it in action. He will be competing this weekend in the Bahamas, for the World Relay Qualifying Championship for Paris. A topic that affects Jacobs a lot, who at the moment is not technically qualified for either the 100 or the 4×100.

The roads to qualification in Paris

Philip Tortu and the gold medalists from Tokyo, but also the new entry Lorenzo Simonelli, they will find him in Miami to prepare together and resolve the issue already in Nassau. As for the 100, the reigning champion has two paths. An immediate one: run in 10 seconds or less, to immediately reach the minimum achieved so far by 19 rivals. To complete the picture of the 56 participants there is a more complex path: the ranking, which he will enter on Wednesday as soon as the ranking of the 5 times obtained since 1 July 2023 is updated. Fidal cannot even remotely imagine not enrolling Jacobs in the 100 , but there are more than two months left until the ranking closes on June 30th. Jacobs is in a hurry: after Nassau his Italian season will begin, between the Rieti camp, the Sprint Festival and the European Championships in Rome. Dense and stimulating weeks, for those who want to go below 10 net.