Article by Luminița Paul – published on Thursday, October 9, 2025, 21:08 / Updated Thursday, October 9, 2025:09
Giacomo Tortu (32 years old), Filippo Tortu's brother (27 years old), a member of the Italian 4×100 m pole who won the Olympic title in 2021 in Tokyo, was suspended for three years by the Italian athletics federation (fidal) because he spy on the double Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs (31 years).
Three years of suspension and disqualification: This is the severe punishment imposed by the Athletic Federation of Giacomo Tortu, former Sprinter and Filippo's brother, the Olympic gold medal in the 4×100 m pole in Tokyo. The case refers to illegal spy Marcell Jacobsthe Olympic champion at 100 m, in an attempt to gather evidence regarding the alleged use of doping substances. The spy was ordered by the private agency Equalize.
Giacomo tortucurrent president of the Raptors Milano club, received two suspensions after trying, with the help of a private detective agency, to access Jacobs's personal data in the hope that he was resorting to dopaj, notes Gazzetta Dello Sport.
The first suspension, pronounced by the fidal, lasting 30 months, is justified by “Violation of respecting and observing the statutory and federal rules, as well as the principles of loyalty, integrity, sports equity and discipline that constitute the foundations of sport.”.
The second, for six months, was added to the first “because he committed the crime with the purpose of committing or hiding another crime, or to secure or assure someone else's advantage“Fidal said in his statement that Filippo Tortu was”totally foreign to the initiative of the charged”.
Giacomo Tortu and Filippo Tortu Photo: X
During this period, Giacomo to Tortu will not be able to carry out any activity within the fidal and will not have access to the training or competition lands. The federal court requested its expulsion. At the same time, the Prosecutor's Office in Milan continues the investigation in the criminal case.
Italy, Surprise Olympic Champion at the 4×100 m pole in 2021 at Tokyo
The members of the Male of Italy, Olympic champion at 4×100 m at Tokyo 2020 Photo: Imago Images
Tortu and Jacobs were part of the Italian pole that, to the general surprise, won the title at the 2021 Olympics, in front of the United Kingdom, a premiere in the history of Italian athletics. Four days earlier, Jacobs, who until then had no important title in the record and was unknown to the general public, had won the gold medal at 100 m, the queen test of athletics, with a time of 9.80 seconds, in front of American Fred Kerley and Canadian Andre de Grasse.
Since then, Jacobs, tormented by repeated injuries, has won two European titles in 2022 and 2024 to 100 m and returned to a world competitive level. He finished in 5th place at 100 m at the Paris Olympic Games in 2024 and 4th with the 4×100 m pole. This year, in September, he did not pass the semifinals of the Sprint at the Tokyo World Championships. Together with Tortu, he also won the silver medal at the stick at the 2023 World Championships.
