Jacobs also skips the Absolutes of Molfetta, fears for the World Cup in Budapest

Still slide the return of Marcell Jacobs. After having given up on the Montecarlo meeting on 21 July, the Olympic champion of the 100m will not even participate in the absolute Italian Championships in Molfetta, from 28 to 30 July. The absence emerged by scrolling through the registration lists issued by Fidal. Among the 19 registered for the 100 there is no Jacobs, who last year won the indoor and European world championships, but is now still at a standstill and continues the recovery process from the “condition of perineural inflammation with vascular stasis of the sciatic emergency at a of the ischial foramen of the right thigh”, as established by the federation after the forfeits that followed the disappointing appearance at the Paris meeting. To recover physically there is still more than a month until the World Championships in Budapest (August 19-27), but Jacobs will certainly miss the races he wanted to face to prepare himself from a competitive point of view.

If in Molfetta there will be no gold from Tokyo, the presence of whoever is replacing him at the moment in the blue team is announced, the reigning European champion of the indoor 60m Samuel Ceccarelli. Also present were other Olympic champions such as the one in the high jump, Gianmarco Tamberi, and the 20 km walk Massimo Stano that in the Apulian locality will compete in the 10 km on the road.