In the 100m final of the Tokyo Olympics last summer, Jacobs from Italy won the gold medal with a time of 9.80 seconds, which became one of the results of the athletics upset at that time, and because of this, his winning of this gold medal was also questioned by many people, and even suspected that he was involved in the prohibition of drugs, so that he had to clarify that he had undergone four drug tests before the competition to prove the gold content of the East Olympic 100m gold medal in his hand.
At the recent World Indoor Athletics Championships, Jacobs punched people who questioned his speed with strength, not only setting a new personal best in 6.41 seconds in the 60m event, but also seeking the 7th defending 60m world record holder Coleman with 0.003 seconds, becoming the European record holder while once again proving his sprint strength.
One of the reasons Jacobs was questioned was that he used to be a long jumper in addition to sprinting, and before practicing track and field, he was a boy who was passionate about basketball and football, until the football coach discovered his explosive power and advised him to start sprinting, so he officially entered the world of athletics at the age of 10.
In addition to sprinting, Jacobs also practiced the long jump, and his explosiveness was also good at the long jump, and at the age of 21, he won the italian athletics championship long jump event, becoming the top 10 player in the long jump event of the world athletics leadership list. However, compared to the long jump, Jacobs loves the sport of sprinting more, and he often suffers injuries due to practicing long jump, so after consideration, he decided to focus on the training of sprinting projects and give up the same extraordinary long jump.
After making this decision, the results were quickly presented in Jacobs's sprint performance. In the same year after abandoning the long jump, he improved his best time in the 100 meters to 10.03 seconds, becoming the 3rd fastest Italian in history, and won the European championship in the 60 meters at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in March 2021, setting a national record for Italy. However, two months later, he broke Italy's 100-meter record in 9.59 seconds, becoming the second athlete in Italian history to break the 10-second mark, becoming a new hope for the Italian sprint event.
Jacobs then successfully entered the Tokyo Olympics with excellent results, setting a new European record in the semi-finals of the 100 meters, becoming the first Italian athlete to reach the 100 meters final, but what was even more surprising was that he finally returned with a gold medal and became the first European to win gold in the event since 1992.
In the Sprinting World dominated by the United States and Jamaicans, breaking into a Jacobs from Europe, the various results he created unsurprisingly caused a huge wave, all kinds of doubts poured out, for which he said that these controversies will not affect himself, he knows how much sacrifice he has to make to get to this day, and his drug test results not only prove his innocence, but also his sprinting strength that cannot be ignored.
Before the Olympics, Jacobs had actually been estranged from his father because his parents divorced when he was young, but under the advice of a psychologist, he successfully reconciled with his father, which also brought him peace of mind, more focused on training in the Olympics and the belief in winning.
The indoor world championships is the second time in history to usher in the Olympic gold medal competition, the final result not only let Coleman's 6-year unbeaten record was broken, but also proved that Jacobs's sprinting strength is not just luck, interesting place is that in the past he and Coleman also participated in the 2018 Diamond League, but at that time Colemanbi's project was 100 meters, and he was a long jump event.
After the game, Jacobs became the first Olympic and indoor world champion in history, and is the only athlete to achieve this achievement, to which he also said that it is impossible for anyone to win two gold medals in the competition through luck, in this way to respond to the doubts faced in the past.
Jacobs's appearance is undoubtedly to shake the status of the United States and Jamaica's sprint king, this wonderful contest made the same as 6.41 seconds they were quite nervous while waiting for the result, and finally Jacobs won the gold medal with a score of 0.003 seconds, to some extent not only affected Coleman's 60-meter status, but also deeply shook the current sprinting world.