NAfter the legendary Usain Bolt (Usain Bolt) won the championship, Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs (Lamont Marcell Jacobs) won a sensation in the 100 meters of the Tokyo Olympic Games to win the gold medal. Jacobs dropped the Americans Fred Klee (9.84) and Andre DeGrass (9.89) from Canada to the second and second place on Sunday night (local time) with a European record of 9.80 seconds. three. Just a few minutes ago, the Italian Gianmarco Tamberi won the gold medal in the high jump. After Jacobs crossed the finish line, the two athletes hugged each other.
Bolt has long been a poster boy for the Olympics. The performer from Jamaica won gold medals in the 100m and 200m at the 2008 Beijing, 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics. After finishing his career in 2017, it is now the question of successors. For the first time since 2000, there were no Jamaicans in the Olympic 100m final.
Trevon Brommel, who was voted by Bolt as the gold medal favorite, did not experience this crazy matchup as a participant in the glittering Tokyo night. “Brommel is very promising,” this long-time sportsman once commented on the 26-year-old.
However, the Americans did not lead the post-bolt era. Brommel missed the final-a difference of a thousandth of a second. In his semi-final, he trailed Nigeria’s Enoch Adegoke with a time of 10.00 seconds, ranking third. Adegoke stopped at 9.995 seconds-Bromell was only one-thousandth more. Initially, only hundredths of a second are shown in the results log-but you can also see distances of one-thousandths of a second on the target film.
It was a huge disappointment for Bromell. He sprinted for the seventh fastest time in history with 9.77 seconds in June, but had to change the direction. Even for Johan Black, a Jamaican who was once Bolt’s competitor, this is not enough to make it to the big stage. The 2012 London 100m silver medalist and former world champion was eliminated in the semifinals.
Chinese player Su Bingtian unexpectedly led American player Ronnie Baker in the semifinals (both 9.83 seconds). Su Bingtian also set an Asian record. Jacobs has set a European record in 9.84 seconds. Then comes the ending-it’s time to hold your breath! And even if the unexpected man Jacobs could not be caught in the sprint final, of course he could not get close to the entertainer and outstanding athlete Bolt. “No one will immediately follow in Bolt’s footsteps,” World Federation President Sebastian Coe said earlier.
