I'm dumbfounded and confused Jacob's wins 100m

Confidence is key in the 100m.

Imagine your country had won the biggest sporting competition in the year so far, and also Eurovision. Then most importantly seeing your countrymate win Gold just before.

That's the petrol on the tinder.

All he needed was the spark.

Man's a ledge.

okbroski wrote:

tolotolo wrote:

Huge improvement in one year. History shows us how this occurs at his age. Italy has the most doping bans of all countries. Hopefully they catch him doping. As that’s what he is - a doper.

Dunce. He is 26.

He shifted focus from LJ to sprints. He was never slow

Man, I never knew it was so easy to just shift focus and become the Olympic Champ. I mean Echevarria has jumped 8.68 legal - what is he doing messing around jumping. He could just "shift focus" and be a 9.7 guy in his sleep.

You idiots are using the "he was a long jumper DUH" argument as if it adds legitimacy to the fact he lopped 0.28 seconds off his 100m time and succeeded Usain Bolt as the Olympic Champ (running faster than Bolt did in Rio), except it's the complete opposite.

morningBM wrote:

Herea an interesting question: if he had competed as an American, would he have been able to MAKE the team? Too 3 at the US champs?

Isn't it wild that one could make a good arguement towards "no", but here he is, Olympics CHAMP, regardless.

His mother is Italian, he has lived in Italy since he was 6 months old.

He spoke to his father for the first time last year.

He's Italian.

Well he was a long jumper with a 10 flat or not a 10.5 guy or even a 10.3 guy. He could of just been not trained well to run the 100m.

If you find long jumpers with a 10.15 or better pr I'd say they would break 10 with proper training.

Salvitore Stitchmo wrote:

okbroski wrote:

Dunce. He is 26.

He shifted focus from LJ to sprints. He was never slow

Man, I never knew it was so easy to just shift focus and become the Olympic Champ. I mean Echevarria has jumped 8.68 legal - what is he doing messing around jumping. He could just "shift focus" and be a 9.7 guy in his sleep.

You idiots are using the "he was a long jumper DUH" argument as if it adds legitimacy to the fact he lopped 0.28 seconds off his 100m time and succeeded Usain Bolt as the Olympic Champ (running faster than Bolt did in Rio), except it's the complete opposite.

Blah,.

Can you think of another fast Long Jumper?

Carl Lewis? Larry Myricks.

If you are a long jumper, you are also a sprinter. If you stop jumping, you become a full time sprinter.

And now we have the shoes.

You should be asking why the other guys choked.

He ran 9.80, not 9.58

He is still yards behind Bolt.

I mean Gayle has run 10.18 in a random Jamaican meet ftw, the Swede long jumper has run 6.8 for 60 meters. A lot of long jumper can run fast, but it doesn’t mean they’d recognize their talent was greater at 100 immediately. See Schippers or Tory Bowie for reference.

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

I mean Gayle has run 10.18 in a random Jamaican meet ftw, the Swede long jumper has run 6.8 for 60 meters. A lot of long jumper can run fast, but it doesn’t mean they’d recognize their talent was greater at 100 immediately. See Schippers or Tory Bowie for reference.

Yeah Gayle has always ran a few 100m, but when he recently started focusing on improving his speed he got alot faster. He's won a 60m and that 100m in small meets.

He does not have a roided look. In fact he looks kinda "heavy" for a sprinter for what its worth.

Like David Oliver the hurdler

okbroski wrote:

tolotolo wrote:

Huge improvement in one year. History shows us how this occurs at his age. Italy has the most doping bans of all countries. Hopefully they catch him doping. As that’s what he is - a doper.

Dunce. He is 26.

He shifted focus from LJ to sprints. He was never slow

Yeah 26, when most sprinters are already past their prime.

You don't suddenly discover you have world class talent in the marquee Olympic event at age 26 (after running 10.5 at age 20)...

Five is the magic number wrote:

Apparently the guy was a just below the top long jumper for many years and only not too long ago went all in on the 100, so he's still on a learning curve.

Could be o doper anyway of course, but the late bloomer thingy has legit reasons from the main event change.

not too long ago? The guy basically abandoned the Long Jump outdoors after 2016. He has only LJed outdoors ONCE since 2017, and pretty much only been running the 100. He spend all of 2018, 2019 and 2020 running in the 10.0x-10.2x range all season...Three years of consistent 10.0x to suddenly running 9.80 is definitely suspicious.

Frankly just running 9.80 is suspicious. Before he joined them, only 12 guys had ever run 9.80 or faster, and 9 of those 12 have faced some sort of doping ban at some point. So we know for sure 75% of the people that have run that fast historically are dirty.

Armstronglivs wrote:

I'm genuinely puzzled as to why we would think that anyone clean would stand a chance of winning an Olympic final now. In any event.

I wish I could up-vote this. Absolutely the truth. I guarantee even in Equestrian dressing that something is doped...horse or rider, likely both.

If no one in the 100 m final was clean, what made Jacobs the winner of that group ?