SecondThis is a special story that happened these days lock up Playing in Spain. The Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen, who was badly injured a year ago, returned and has now won two stages of victories at Vuelta, the most recent on Saturday and the other on Sunday’s Italian. Miano Caruso (Damiano Caruso).
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Jacobson suffered a terrible fall in the Poland Tour in Katowice. His life is up in the balance, and his career seems to be over. “A year ago, I was still on a stretcher on the plane that took me home from Poland,” he said. “Who would believe that I would drive a Vuelta in a year?” Now he didn’t just go. He even won. He is becoming one of the best sprinters in the world.
“I am very happy to win here,” Jakobsen said after his success on stage 8. “Today I was the fastest, I started the sprint on time. I started too late on this Vuelta twice, and I finished second each time. This time I seized the right time and was able to survive. The sprint is It’s about power, speed, and timing.”
Chaos
This is how he explained his coup. Jacobson had experienced anxiety several times before. In the last few kilometers, he initially lost the rear wheel of an approaching driver. The Deceuninck-Quick-Step “train” is also not as representative as usual in terms of personnel. The headwind in the finals consumed a lot of effort.
Many reduced sprint trains rushed to the top again and again, causing a lot of confusion. However, Jacobson maintained his courage. He was the first person to start the sprint and first stopped the Frenchman Arnaud Démare. Then, he competed with his strong emerging main competitor, Jasper Philipsen, a two-time stage champion from Belgium, at the Tour de Marseille.
“We know he is fast, but we don’t know how strong he is,” Jacobson’s sports director Wilfried Pitts said at the end. To his satisfaction, his driver not only found his explosive power again. He also has the endurance for long sprints. Most importantly, Jacobson apparently handled the terrible Polish accident so well that there was no fear, no hesitation, and no attention to psychological obstacles during the game.
Jacobson rarely talks about his recovery. But the body and mind can bear the demand of cycling again.As a sprinter, you rely heavily on self-confidence, emphasizing Marcel Kittel, Germany’s top sprinter for the past ten years, in a recent interview with touring magazine. “If self-confidence no longer exists, you no longer exist. As a person, you will also lose your way.”
This is how the Thuringian describes the depth he himself has experienced, which is why he gave up cycling early. Higher is Jacobson’s performance. The young Dutchman looked confident about how he performed in the chaos of the sprint final. It started where it stopped two years ago.Jacobson made his Grand Tour debut at the 2019 Tour de France and also scored two victories, beating on the last day of Madrid Sam Bennett. A few weeks later, the Irish switched to Quick Step and ranked ahead of Jacobson’s nose in the sprinter category.
Bennett was also a sprinter on the tour last year, winning two stage titles, while Jacobson was sent to the Polish tour. At the same time, the racing team’s cards have been reshuffled. Bennett returned to Bora-hansgrohe after a dispute with team boss Patrick Lefevere. This summer, Mark Cavendish represented him well in France.
The Englishman has won four games on the tour. However, contract negotiations with him have been delayed. “We want Mark to join the team. But given the success of the tour, he should not overestimate his market value,” said Lefebvre, who is still an employer. Each victory of Jacobson strengthened the position of the racing team owner in the current salary poker.
In the team’s total of 50 victories this season, Bennett contributed 7 victories to his retirement. Since his comeback in April, Cavendish has won nine games. Jakobsen was carefully introduced to the car, ensuring four successes. The 24-year-old is currently going through a happy stage. His compatriots now even believe that he will become Belgium’s world champion at the end of September. The course has smaller climbing and cobblestone passages, so it is a classic course. The rainbow jersey will be the culmination of a story that looks like a fairy tale.
