Marcell Jacobs said yes. The 100-meter Olympic and European champion got married this afternoon with a civil ceremony in Gardone Riviera in Bresciano, on Lake Garda.
Black Smikong, shiny shoe and sunglasses for him, white dress with long train for his partner Nicole Daza, who today also celebrates her 29th birthday and is the mother of two of the athlete's three children.
A ceremony with 170 guests, "our families and closest friends", said the champion. Many onlookers greeted the couple when they left Desenzano del Garda to head to Gardone Riviera.
Jacobs was accompanied by his mother Viviana, the ceremony was celebrated in the park of the Tower, overlooking the lake, in a riot of white flowers. The municipal secretary of Gardone Valeria Ferro officiates the civil ceremony. Then an aperitif in the park and dinner.
The best day also hides a hint of bitterness, as the sprinter himself confessed to the Gazzetta. The father, Lamont Jacobs, did not go: “He bailed me out, this time I didn't even hear him,” said the sprinter. "Fortunately, my grandmother, uncles and some cousins arrived from the US last Sunday, sixteen people in all".
Jacobs' father is a Texan soldier who, a few months after Marcell's birth, left his baby and his mother Viviana. Jacobs only saw him once, when he was a teenager. She invited him to the wedding, but the answer was not positive. In fact, it hasn't even arrived.
