On December 24, Beijing time, the AMERICAN athletics authoritative media "Athletics Magazine" selected the top 10 athletes in 2021, in the men's top ten list, THE ST Olympic 100-meter champion, the only athletics double gold medalist in the Tokyo Olympic Games Jacobs did not appear in the list, somewhat surprising. It should be known that Jacobs won the 100 meters at the Olympic Games with a time of 9.80 seconds, which is very good, and led the team to win the relay gold medal in 37.50 seconds, which is one of the largest track and field athletes in the Tokyo Olympic Games.
In the list of the top 10 athletes previously released by "World Athletics", Jacobs did not enter it, and many Italian media at that time believed that the Athletics Federation lacked impartiality and did not respect Italian players. This time again failed to be selected as the annual top ten list of "Athletics News", and the editor was surprised and not surprised.
Jacobs was named to the top 10 list for good reason, and not being named in the top 10 is equally justified.
First of all, let's talk about Jacobs's advantages this year, one is the special significance of the 100-meter event, although the project does not have a high or low point, but the influence and significance of the project is large and small, the 100 meters is undoubtedly one of the most influential athletics projects, representing the limits of human speed, the significance is extraordinary; the second is that Jacobs won the Olympic double gold this year, and is the only track and field athlete who won 2 gold medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The top ten players are: Cruz, Walholm, Duplantis, Warner, Starr, Jacob Ingriggson, Benjamin, Werther, Holloway, and Pidocha. Compared to Jacobs, the results of these players are much better, especially the consistency of the results throughout the season, which Jacobs cannot match.
The reason why Jacobs can not be selected as the top ten of the year, Xiaobian thinks that there are two main reasons, one is that his performance throughout the season is relatively mediocre, the pb position before the Tokyo Olympics is 9.95 seconds, although there is a great possibility of entering the 100-meter final, but there is almost no hope of winning the medal, although the final 9.80 seconds to win the championship is very good, but this season has only this shot, and he ended the season after the Olympic Games, and did not have the opportunity to win the diamond league after the diamond league / Create more good results in the challenge.
The second is that the performance of other players this season is too dazzling, the "Athletics News" top ten list of 7 athletes won the Olympic championship, their results are also very good, into the top ten without suspense, and did not be able to win the Olympic champion Benjamin, Holloway, Werther have created very excellent results, they have a very good performance throughout the season, only the Olympics lost once, compared to Jacobs, the overall performance is indeed much better.
In addition, in addition to Jacobs, there are many Olympic champions who have not been selected into the top ten, 100m bronze medal / 200m gold medal winner Deglas, marathon champion Kipchoge, 10000m champion Barega have not been selected in the top 10, to know that Kipchoge has previously won the Olympic Best Male Athlete Award issued by the International Olympic Committee Association.
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