wins the 60 meters in 6”57 – Corriere.it

The long wait is over. First in Lodz in 6”57 ahead of the Polish Kopec (6”60) and the American Hall (6”64). Dressed in yellow and black (new sponsor), Marcell Jacobs the queen bee recovering tartan and speed, six months (scarce) without opponents are long, and in the Dubai desert (a month of retreat in January) encounters have been rarefied. Here it is again, the adrenaline of the sprint in the hall against flesh-and-blood rivals, those 60 meters that Jacobs covers in 29 soft and light paces, as nature creates. The Orlen Cup in Lodz, Poland, the bronze stage of the World Indoor Tour, puts him back on the right track. There will be time to shine and touch up a time that doesn’t satisfy him: I struggle in the first part of the match, I have to understand why – he tells Rai hotly -. I’m working to run the 100 meters with constant progression, today I can’t be satisfied but it was right to go back to running. Training one thing, the stadium another. I promise to entertain you more next time.

In Lodz last year he had won in 6″49, two hundredths of a second from the personal he would have adjusted at the World Championship in Belgrade (6″41, new European record).
In battery, just before, he didn’t like it. First in 6”61 ahead of Lampach and Hall practically without running: I took a health walk – he joked -, there is a bit of rust to remove from the gears. I consider it training, I missed the sensations of the race. Which he found in the final.

172 days have passed since the last competition. We were in Munich, the open European Championships, that gold conquered by the Olympic champion in 9″95 by crushing the insistent Great Britain (Hughes silver in 9″99, Ali bronze in 10″13) redeemed a World Cup finished with forty-eight cards due to an injury, the umpteenth one from last season. The adventure starts again from Lodz, the route leads straight to Budapest World Cup in August (going fromIndoor European Championship in Istanbul), who will be giving away the only medal missing from Jacobs’ collection. The 60 meters is the way to get there. Next indoor appointment in Lievin, France, on Wednesday February 15th. The engine restarted. With painstaking patience, it must be fine-tuned.