AP – The Paris Olympics are less than 50 days away and defending 100-metre champion Marcell Jacobs still hasn’t dipped under the 10-second mark in nearly two years.
He’s got another gold medal to hang around his neck, though.
Jacobs clocked a season-best 10.02 to win on his home track and defend his European Championship title yesterday.
“The times are not what’s important in these competitions, it’s the result that counts,” Jacobs said. “The goal is to be in my best form in two months when it counts even more and I know that I still have a lot of work to do.” The Texas-born Italian looked smoother in his semi-final heat when he ran 10.05 despite easing through the finish.
“Considering how I felt in the semi-final, we had calculated that I could have ran between 9.92 and 9.95,” Jacobs said. “So when I saw the display I wasn’t very happy. But at the same time, as I said, medals count more than times. Medals remain forever.”
After the final, Jacobs was shaking his left calf, which he said was due to a cramp that he felt toward the end of the race, not an injury.
