(ANSA) – ROME, MARCH 20 – “I threw myself into a discipline that is not my race, but it was important to have shown that I am still number one. Compared to Tokyo, I knew here that it was another race, really complicated because the two Americans were there to beat me and the one who finished second (Coleman ed) to confirm himself as number one. But when I have stronger opponents than me, I get excited “. It is a calm Marcell Jacobs who, speaking during ‘Che tempo che fa’ on Rai Tre, analyzes his victory yesterday in the 60-meter race of the Indoor Athletics World Championships. “Now I don’t have stronger opponents than me? – says the Olympian from Tokyo again – I don’t get excited and I always keep my feet on the ground”.
But what is speed? What’s behind those seconds of a sprint race? “Those 6.41 or those 9.80 – says Jacobs – for you are a few moments, for us instead they are life, we always try to file out some cents and behind that time there is a world, a life.
Running gives you adrenaline, it sounds simple but it’s not. “
What do you think of Usain Bolt who called him his heir? “It’s really fantastic – Jacobs’ comment – a lot of stuff. I have followed everything about him, and to be named heir is an incredible thing.”
The biggest difficulty in Tokyo was that “I never adjusted to the time zone. Off the track I am a lazy, sleepyhead. I enjoy all those moments I can live slowly. I crawl my feet when I walk, I am on the sofa and in bed as long as possible. I never take the stairs, if there is an elevator I take it “.
His book, ‘Flash’, published by Piemme, will be released in May.
“I will explain that you have to have dreams and live them to the full – says Jacobs -. Nobody gives you anything, you shouldn’t expect to find the doors open but then the most important door will open. The book tells more about my failures than successes,” because they are the ones who helped me win. “
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Source: Ansa
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