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Tokyo: Jacobs leaving, standing ovation at the airport

2021-08-09T09:14:33.057Z


Photographers, TV and crowds for the 100-year Olympian blue. Stan: 'Wonderful year for me, I'm already thinking of Paris'. Palmisano: 'A dream crowned, now holidays' (ANSA)


Marcell Jacobs superstar, at Tokyo airport, on the day of his return to Italy

. The double Olympic gold sprinter, in the 100 and 4x100, just arrived with the rest of the Azzurri group and was welcomed at the Haneda airport by a crowd of photographers, cameramen and passengers and airport staff, who from the terraces of the shop area they began to film it, while many lined up for autographs and selfies. Then Jacobs took the two medals out of his suitcase, put them around his neck and posed for the photos, to the applause of the entire airport.

"It's a wonderful year for me: my first Olympics, the birth of my first child, a beautiful little girl. So this could not miss the 'icing' on the cake: the gold medal".

Stano, celebrated in Fiumicino by the sports group of the Fiamme Gialle as soon as he got off the plane and then hugged at the exit of the T3 arrivals terminal by his wife Fatima, who waited for him with little Sophie held in her arms, recalled the path that took him brought up to Tokyo

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"In the last two months - he added - I kept telling myself that I was the strongest in the world and that I had to do everything possible to win the Olympic gold. During the race I continued to think about it and to convince myself of this even if the statistics said something else. , but my mental strategy worked. Now I'm already thinking of Paris. "

"It was a troubled path for me, but I dreamed of this gold so much that it finally arrived"

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Antonella Palmisano

, first in the 20 km walk to the Olympics, upon arrival in Fiumicino from Tokyo, where she found her husband waiting for her with a floral tribute. "What a nice surprise and then - she said laughing - he almost never gives me flowers. It was another emotion for me. Future plans? Now I don't have them. I just need to rest and take a vacation, then we will see". 

Source: ansa

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