Athletics: Jacobs says British doping claims 'ridiculous'

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 15 - Marcell Jacobs said Tuesday renewed British suggestions that Italy's Olympic 100m champ owed his surprising late career time leap to doping were ridiculous.
    Jacobs, 27, who also won a sprint relay gold in Tokyo, said "the only positive athlete found recently was a Briton and the British are trying to find someone doping outside the UK because they're the ones with the problem at home.
    "It's something that make me laugh, they make themselves ridiculous on their own".
    There were suggestions in the British and US media after Jacobs' double triumph last summer that he may have doped his way to the golds.
    The US-born northern Italian took a long break after Tokyo and is set to return to competition in Berlin on February 4. (ANSA).