Tokyo (AFP)
Italy surprised by coming up against Great Britain to win over the wire in the men's 4x100m relay on Friday at the Tokyo Olympics, giving Lamont Marcell Jacobs a second title after the 100m.
Lorenzo Patta, Lamont Marcell Jacobs, Eseosa Fostine Desalu and Filipo Tortu, in 37 sec 50, beat the British (37.51) and Canada of Andre de Grasse (37.70), in a private final of the United States, eliminated in the playoffs .
Author of a fiery final straight, Tortu, the badly named, offered an unexpected title to Italy, not on the podium in the men's 4x100m since 1948 (3rd place).
The Italian Filippo Tortu caps the Briton Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake on the wire and wins the 4x100m relay with his 3 teammates, August 6, 2021 at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Andrej ISAKOVIC AFP
The Transalpines succeed in exceptional Olympic Games with 5 Olympic titles, as many as the United States for the moment, after the high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi, the walkers Antonella Palmisiano and Massimo Stano (over 20 km both) and therefore their sprinter Lamont Marcell Jacobs lighthouse.
This almost unknown one year ago will therefore have taken advantage of the Tokyo Games to win two of the most prestigious titles and take the European record in the 100m.
The joy of the Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs, Olympic champion in the 100m, on August 1, 2021 at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Jewel SAMAD AFP
Canada's Andre de Grasse won his third medal in Japan after bronze in the 100m and the 200m title, his 6th Olympic medal in total at just 26 years old.
The Japanese Olympic vice-champions cracked at home by missing their second transmission.
Favorites before the Games, the United States had not passed the playoffs Thursday, a new flop (no title since 2000) which earned them the wrath of legend Carl Lewis.
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