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Tokyo Olympics: a great sensation! After the 100m, Lamont Marcell Jacobs offers the 4x100m title to Italy

2021-08-06T15:09:44.157Z


Impossible is not Italian! To everyone's surprise, the 4x100m transalpine relay, carried by its surprising Olympic 100m champion, took off.


Another Sensation at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo!

And once again, the Italian Jacobs is in the game!

The Italian 4x100m relay, with in order of appearance on screen Lorenzo Patta, Lamont Marcell Jacobs, Eseosa Fostine Desalu and Filipo Tortu, to everyone's surprise won the Olympic title ahead of Great Britain and Canada in 37′'50.

It is the first time in its history that Italy has won the Olympic gold medal in this event.

Second before the last stint, the badly named Filippo Tortu recovered the baton before beating in the home stretch and on the wire the Briton Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake.

Jamaica finished in a disappointing 5th place.

As for the Americans, decidedly totally upside down in athletics in Tokyo, they were not even invited to the final, eliminated like the French in the playoffs.

🚄 ITALY, A NEW NATION OF SPRINT!



Incredible !

The Italian relay wins the 4X100 meters ahead of Great Britain and Canada



Marcell Jacobs wins a second gold medal 🥇! # Tokyo2020 #JeuxOlympiques #Athletics pic.twitter.com/qMjM0PLG8f

- Eurosport France (@Eurosport_FR) August 6, 2021

Already crowned over 100 m, Marcell Jacobs, whom hardly anyone knew before the start of these Games, achieves a more than unlikely double.

Shod in these points that are debating, Jacobs has not finished talking.

Like Tortu, his partner with a golden finish.

Even more incredible, this men's relay offers a fifth title to Italian athletics in these Games after the one on the queen distance, the one at the height by Gianmarco Tamberi (shared with the Qatari Barshim) and the two over 20 km walk (Massimo Stano and Antonella Palmisano).

# Tokyo2020 #Olympics


Italy win Olympic men's 4x100 meters relay



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- AFP Photo (@AFPphoto) August 6, 2021

Thanks to this new title, tenth in Tokyo across all sports, Italy beats its record for medals garnered during the Summer Olympics: 38 after this relay, against 36 in Los Angeles in 1932 and Rome in 1960. The Italy is in 7th place in the awards table, far ahead of France, 10th with its 27 medals including 7 in gold.

Source: leparis

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