The Italian Marcell Jacobs, Olympic 100-meter champion in 2021has ended its collaboration with Paolo Camossithe coach who brought him to the top of athletics, as revealed less than a year after Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
“We wrote together the history of Italian and world athletics. We lived together a very powerful moment, but in life there are cycles and we came to the conclusion that the time has come to go our separate ways, ” declared Jacobs in this Tuesday edition. from La Gazzetta dello Sport.
“I realized that I needed a total change, also in terms of motivation. I want to train in a new place, find athletes to train, who push me and help me in the most demanding moments of winter preparations,” he continued.
Under the guidance of Camossi, a former triple jumper who became world indoor champion in 2001, Jacobs, who was born in Texas to an American father who soon passed away and an Italian mother, caused a sensation in Tokyo by becoming the Olympic champion of the 100 meters and the 4×100 meters relay.
Since then, he has been proclaimed world champion at 60 meters in 2022 and European champion at 100 meters in the same year, but he has had two seasons with muscle problems and disappointments, such as his exit from the semifinals of the 2023 World. Championships, the month spent in Budapest.
Jacobs, who turns 29 on September 26has not yet determined his new coach or his new base camp, because it is true that he will leave Rome.
“I have a lot of ideas, I just have to put them into practice,” he explained, leaving the door open to a move abroad. “I’m looking for a way of working that allows me to stay in perfect physical condition, with mobility, stretching and avoiding exercises to avoid problems,” he added.
“It’s a new start to go back to Marcell in Tokyo,” hoped Jacobs, silver medalist in the 4×100 m relay with Italy at the 2023 World Championships. “The goal for next season is to feel good: if I’m healthy, I can run fast and nobody in the last two World Cups ran faster than my 9.80 (in the final) in Tokyo,” concluded he.
Source: La Verdad
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