Jakob has been crushing the XC since the very start.
When he was 16 he beat a 19 year old Josh Kerr by 32 seconds, and future Olympic gold medalist in the triathlon, Alex Yee (18 at the time), by 29 seconds.
He’s too scared to enter world xc. He knows he’ll get CRUSHED.
Crushed by whom? Jakob will smoke them like a kipper. He jogs to victory.
Also don’t think it’s scared…He got crushed as a Junior and got humbled by the HM. I’m hopeful we get a year where it’s not the same timing as Euro/World Indoors. Feels like he’ll pick those over it, and I haven’t seen guys do both (though Reynold Cheruiyot originally planned to last year).
Jakob looked great today, dominant win. Also quite enjoyable to see that Filip was norways number two, as hothead Nordaas insinuated that his spot on the team wasn't deserved.
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