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The European and Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs will contest the 100m at the Rome Sprint Festival at the Stadio dei Marmi – the warm-up track for the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships from 7-12 June – on 18 May.

“On a mental level I am fine, I am very relaxed and very focused on training,” said Jacobs, “and in September I will be happy if I will confirm my two titles, the Olympic and the European one.”
 
Marcell is expected to compete in Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships on Saturday evening, 8 June, on the new Olympic Stadium track in the 100-metre final, while the 4×100 relay is scheduled for the final session on 12 June.
 
“I am happy to make my debut in Italy in Rome, a city that I love,’ Jacobs concluded, ‘and where I will move soon.”
 
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Meanwhile, Italtain athletics federation (FIDAL) Technical Director Antonio La Torre appeared at the Milano Running Festival, ahead of this Sundays’s (7) Milano Marathon in a talk dedicated to Roma 2024.

“It will be great to see Jacobs again at the Stadio dei Marmi,” added La Torre. “He will be able to start breathing the atmosphere of the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships in the stadium named (after) Pietro Mennea (1980 Olympic 200m champion).” 

The talk, conducted by the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships Communications Director Fabio Guadagnini, was also attended by the Italian sprinter Roberto Rigali, a 4x100m silver medallist at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23, the Roma 1987 World Athletics Championships 3000m steeplechase gold medallist Francesco Panetta, former AC Milan footballer and running lover Massimo Ambrosini and Sky Sport Italia journalist Nicola Roggero. 

“Roma 2024 will be a key moment to understand what role Italy team is going to play at the Olympics Games in Paris. For athletes like Roberto Rigali, it will be a unique opportunity to compete in front of the Italian passionate fans. The technical level of the European Athletics Championships will be high, with international stars as Duplantis, Bol and Ingebrigtsen joining the competition,” commented La Torre.

Rigali is also eagerly looking for the European Athletics Championships: “I am proud to be part of this group and of the Roma 2024 generation. Our secret is that we are stronger together. In Rome we want to give our best.” 

La Torre also said that plans are in pace for a mass participation race at Roma 2024. “On the morning of the half marathon, Sunday 9 June, there will be a 10km mass race opened to all runners, amateurs and professional will run together,” he said.

All details about the course and how to register for the Roma 2024 mass race will be announced in the coming days.