VG has a story on how Jakob's agent, Daniel Wessfeldt, is living high right now as he also represents Mondo. I loved Wessfeldt's quote on what makes Jakob so good.
"He's a f***king talent, and the season he's had this year despite not running for five months shows how easy he is. That should not have been possible. He's not afraid, he's tougher than anyone else."
PS. Norwegians, is f***ing the right translation for jævla. One website tried to claim it means "hell of talent."
foul language is frowned upon.
"he has cheater shoes...he's a 3:48 miler without them, but hell, so are Kerr and Hocker."
What else is an athlete's agent going to say about them? Is this supposed to be an objective opinion?
Jævla is a dialect word from the rogaland area and it’s an emphasize word that means “really, really”. Not a direct translation to “f*cking” because it’s used more widely, but it is a good translation.
Not Norwegian but I just lived in Sandnes for a year.
Not running for five months?
Come on, this is hyperbole, right?
I still don't understand exactly how little/much training Jakob got in last fall/winter. Has this been fully explained?
yawn46885 wrote:
Not running for five months?
Come on, this is hyperbole, right?
I still don't understand exactly how little/much training Jakob got in last fall/winter. Has this been fully explained?
Apparently he can miss so much training and then crush the world's best who've missed no training but he's not doing anything dodgy. 🙄🥱😴
He for sure cross-trained three times a day.
Muffy wrote:
Jævla is a dialect word from the rogaland area and it’s an emphasize word that means “really, really”. Not a direct translation to “f*cking” because it’s used more widely, but it is a good translation.
Not Norwegian but I just lived in Sandnes for a year.
Jævla is common in most, if not the whole of Norway. Jævla comes from jævel which comes from djevel which of course is very similar to the english devil (which it quite literately means.)
So hell of a talent would be a closer to the direct translation, and sounds better to my ear at least. F****** talent sounds like something completely different, but I guess isn't completely off.
Armstronglivs wrote:
What else is an athlete's agent going to say about them? Is this supposed to be an objective opinion?
As I’m sure rojo’s mom told him he’s a TON smart!!
He’s bold and a beast and that’s why I like watching him race.
yawn46885 wrote:
Not running for five months?
Come on, this is hyperbole, right?
I still don't understand exactly how little/much training Jakob got in last fall/winter. Has this been fully explained?
Whatever running he wasn’t able to do, I imagine he spent many hours cross-training. I have no idea if it’s possible to use an Alter-G treadmill with an Achilles injury but if so he probably did that too.
What's with the communist references? Did rojo make an edit? It's really annoying when you see comments discussing something that no longer exists in the original message.
thou shall not curse wrote:
foul language is frowned upon.
*fowl
I can't disagree with him.
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