"The moment we entered the track, for the final, we knew we could do something great and we did it."
Thus Marcell Jacobs, during a press conference at Casa Italia with the other three athletes of the 4x100 relay, Filippo Tortu, Lorenzo Patta and Fausto Desalu.
Being the last fractionist of the 4x100 relay is "the best thing and the worst thing.
You are wearing even more tension than in the individual race".
So Filippo Tortu, during a press conference at Casa Italia.
"Bringing the relay to the finish line was fantastic and immediately afterwards Lorenzo" Patta "told me that we had won."
"For me the Olympics is everything: I started running for this. Half an hour before the race I told myself that it would be the race of my life, and that I could not leave," Tortu said.
"In the end - he added - they were tears of joy".
"I trained in a park for a month. It is a miracle that we were able to do all this, and a miracle cannot be explained," Tortu added.
With the gold medal of the Italian 4x100 relay at the Olympics
"there is no Lukaku or Ronaldo who cares",
said Fausto Desalu, responding, during the press conference at Casa Italia, to a question from journalists on the possibility that after Tokyo 2020 all 'athletics is reserved for more space in newspapers and TV than football. Athletics on the front page even after the five gold medals in Tokyo? "It depends on you journalists", retorted Filippo Tortu.
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