“I really didn’t know nothing about him,” Fred Kerley of the United States said. “I thought my main competition was going to be the Americans,” Andre De Grasse of Canada said. The man in Lane 3 was an El Paso-born Italian named Lamont Marcell Jacobs, and he won Olympic gold on Sunday in the men’s 100-meter dash. Once he had made it there, Jacobs, 26, decided to go for more. It sent the few dozen Italian partisans who were scattered across a largely empty stadium into a state of near delirium.

Source: New York Times August 01, 2021 19:52 UTC