In view of the 100 meters at the World Championships scheduled for August in Budapest, it is a long-distance challenge, on social networks, between the 100-meter Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs and the world champion Fred Kerley.
The American, beaten by the Italian on the Tokyo track, never digested the defeat and even went so far as to insult Jacobs heavily at the end of the world championship he won and in which the Italian did not participate due to an injury.
Today, the American is back to "peck" Jacobs, downplaying his victory over 60 meters at the European Championships and stating that he doesn't fear him in view of the World Championships. Jacobs responded by posting an Instagram photo of the Olympic final where he overtook Kerley at the finish line and saying that "when the game gets serious, that's the result".
Kerley, resentful, relaunched again on twitter, proposing a challenge for two. "Where you want and when you want," was Jacobs' response. The remote "race" exalted the entire sporting environment to the point that even Usain Bolt spoke on social media: "The track becomes incandescent", he said referring to the exchange between the two athletes. An athletics legend like Michael Johnson did not fail to give his opinion: "Kerley wants a 1v1 match against Jacobs. Jacobs always says, everywhere. The problem will probably be money. Both absolutely deserve to be paid! But money probably doesn't There are". Thus, the conclusion of the old US glory, "there will be no head-to-head before the World Cup".
