European Athletics Championships: Italy out of the 4x100 final after Turkey's appeal. Marcell Jacobs had given up racing

The

of the

are

of the

as a consequence of the appeal of the Turkish team which qualified in the repetition of the race with a time of 38.98.

The protest of

(seventh at the finish in 39.50 in the Italian battery) is due to a damage received by

during the first change: the Turkish team thus ran alone again at 12:30 with a time less than the one obtained by the blues.

This is why

.

 JACOBS HAD GIVEN RUNNING

The Italian

relay had reached the final at the European Athletics Championships underway in Munich despite the absence of

at the last minute .

At the Olympiastadion, the quartet made up of Lorenzo Patta, Matteo Melluzzo and Chituru Ali and Jacobs' replacement,

only finished fifth in the battery but managed to qualify thanks to a seventh overall time of 39 '' 02.

Shortly before the start, the news had arrived: during the pre-race warm-up Marcell Jacobs - as Fidal explains on its website - decided not to race and then Wanderson Polanco was included in the second fraction.

The only 4x100 Olympic champion to take to the track was therefore

.