Jacobs, sparks with rival Kerley: “Do you want to challenge me? Look, it ends like in Tokyo”. Bolt laughs: “The track gets hot”

The distance challenge between the 100m Olympic champion has already started Marcell Jacobs and the world champion Fred Kerley. the American, silver in Japan behind Jacobs, he never digested the defeat and returned to “peck” the blue, claiming he didn’t fear him in view of the World Cup of Budapest next August. Jacobs responded by posting a photo on Instagram of the Olympic final where he beat Kerley at the finish line: “When the game is serious, that’s the result” the comment. And then, in a new Instagram “story”: “I’m looking around me who will end up behind me”.

Kerley, resentful, raised again up Twitter, proposing a challenge for two. “Where you want and when you want,” was Jacobs’ reply. The remote “competition” also called into question Usain Bolt, who spoke on social media: “The track becomes incandescent”, said the legendary Jamaican sprinter referring to the exchange between the two athletes. Did not miss the opinion of him as a legend of athletics Michael Johnson, the man who broke Pietro Mennea’s historic 200m record: “Kerley wants a 1v1 match against Jacobs. Jacobs says always and everywhere. The problem will probably be money. Both absolutely deserve to be paid! But the money probably isn’t There are”. Thus, the conclusion of the old US glory, “there will be no head-to-head before the World Cup”.