No Diamond League meeting in Eugene, the “home” of his sponsor Nike. Marcell Jacobs, fresh from Olympic glory and still with the post-Japan time zone to dispose of, has decided to stop. Thus, with an Instagram story in which he allowed himself a few questions from his fans, he gave an appointment to 2022 to those who asked him when he would be back on track. Therefore, possible attendances are also skipped in the September meetings in Brussels and Zurich, with related rich engagements.
The Olympian prefers to stop and take stock of the situation with his manager Marcello Magnani, who arrived in Rome to discuss the future of his client, who however promises to be full of opportunities for those who have just won the gold of 100 and in the relay at the Olympics. Moreover, yesterday Jacobs took a trip to ‘Paolo Rosi’, the first after returning from Tokyo and the celebrations in a club in Ponte Milvio and in another in the center of Rome (much loved also by the Giallorossi players), during which he verified that those problems with the cartilage of a knee that he spoke about after the success in the relay persist.
Therefore, being Marcell a perfectionist and also feeling a little exhausted after the efforts and the Olympic emotions, he preferred to forfeit rather than risk bad figures in the meeting of the ‘parent company’ and in the city that will host the World Championships next year. (and that compared to Italy is nine hours behind, therefore with other time zone problems to take into account) and then on prestigious spotlights such as the ‘Van Damme’ and that of Zurich. The technician Paolo Camossi agreed with him and it was decided to postpone everything to 2022, the year in which the Olympian, as he anticipated on the plane that was taking him back to Italy, will compete a couple of times even on the 200 meters “just to see how it goes.”
But it is clear that Jacobs already has Eugene’s World Cup in his sights, where he wants to reiterate in the face of the Americans, who have questioned his performance, that he is the best, the blue born in Texas but 100% Italian . Meanwhile, he will enjoy the Italian GP in Monza, where he was invited. Formula one is, together with NBA basketball (yesterday Marcell was riding in the Lakers ‘purple’ tank top), his passion as a fan, and he couldn’t miss an opportunity like this. And maybe next year we’ll even miss the opportunity to see the Lakers or the Brooklyn Nets live.