themildrunmaster wrote:
I take it that Jakob was saying the 98/100 thing as a euphemism, but to be honest it’s clear he’s just masking his weakness in championship racing. The odds that the two races he just “happened to lose for mathematical reasons” were both the world final is laughable. Obviously his weakest trait is championship racing. He’s still a doggone good 1500 runner, but people figured out and can exploit it. To me, he knows it it’s his weakness, but for whatever reason he won’t publicly acknowledge it.
But it feels like Jakob is always kinda putting on a show. According to Rojo’s article, Jakob pretends not to watch/read the news, generally be aware of stuff online, etc because he’s too focused on running. I am 100% sure Jakob knew the stuff Kerr was saying and had prepared what he was gonna say in this interview about it. It’s just funny he feels the need to pretend about this stuff like he wants us to think he’s this Superman type person who has no flaws and doesn’t care about the “news”. Idk, just interesting.
This response is exactly what I’m talking about. Full of assumptions and diversions.