Different, but better' - Jacobs confident of defending 100m title
Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs said Wednesday he is a ‘changed, but better’ athlete and is confident of defending his title a the Paris Games.
Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs said Wednesday he is a ‘changed, but better’ athlete and is confident of defending his title a the Paris Games.
Rarely has an Olympic 100 metres champion been so belittled or so maligned as Italy's Marcell Jacobs. It is fair to say the Texas-born Italian stunned the field to snatch gold in the Covid-delayed Tokyo Games, in a European record of 9.80sec.