![]() ![]() Look hard enough and there had been signs that something was afoot. I can try to run as fast as possible and fulfil my dream since childhood.” I thought I can really deliver at these Olympics. “That gave me the energy and the will to do everything to be here today. ![]() “My mental coach said the first thing I needed to do was establish a connection with my father,” said Jacobs, who has three children of his own. He revealed his strained relationship with his father also played a part in inspiring him to glory. “It was my childhood dream to win an Olympics Games and obviously a dream can turn into something different, but to run this final and win it is a dream come true.”īorn in Texas to an American father, Jacobs moved to his mother’s Italian homeland before his first birthday. That has improved my performance step by step and that helped me win. “I have a mental coach, I have a chiropractor, I have a person who helps with my nutrition. “We decided to move to Rome and then we set up an entire team. “I think it all started three years ago,” he explained. More importantly, what of his past? How has he gone from crashing out of the European Indoor Championships long jump in 2019 to sprinting his way to Olympic gold in such a short space of time? How is that even possible? We’ll have to see how things pan out in the future.” But from there to drawing comparisons between me and him? I don’t think that’s the time yet. ![]() “I won the Olympic gold medal after him and that is unbelievable. “He is the face of an entire era in athletics,” said Jacobs, 26, of his predecessor. Not that he is arrogant enough to compare himself just yet. To add to the bonkers statistics, his winning time was quicker than Bolt’s from the last Olympics. He also became Usain Bolt’s successor the first man other than the Jamaican superstar to win an Olympic 100m title since 2004. ![]()
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