The first hints that this was Italy’s year came when Italian band Maneskin won the Eurovision Song Contest in May. Then came the epic European Championship soccer title in July. Then on August 1, Marcell Jacobs won the 100 meters at the Tokyo Olympics.
TOKYO — The first hints that this was Italy’s year came when Italian band Maneskin won the popular Eurovision Song Contest in May.To top it all off, on the first day of August, Marcell Jacobs won the 100 meters at the Tokyo Olympics to succeed Usain Bolt asAnd who was the first man to embrace Jacobs after he crossed the line in a personal-best 9.8 seconds on Sunday? That would be
The successes have been a welcome respite for a country that spent much of the past 16 months in various stages of lockdown. Italy was the first country outside Asia to get hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and suffered immensely, particularly in the spring of 2020 when hospitals in northern Italy were overwhelmed with patients and the death toll soared. Italy has recorded more than 128,000 coronavirus deaths, the highest in the 27-nation European Union.
“And now we’ve got The World’s Fastest Man and the man who jumps the highest,” Malagò said. “Marcello and ‘Jimbo’ have made all Italians proud. Words don’t do them justice.”
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