We are used to seeing people swapping into cycling at the top level in other situations.
Rowers become Olympic track riders.
Roglic moved over from ski jumping.
Maybe Jakub is simply one of those people. If he has done multiple mutli-day foot races and had prior mountain bike skills why shouldn't he do well in this race?
Yeah he had tools to maybe do well, but he put in a ride well ahead of experienced Ultracycling riders. Skinny said he put all the focus of this year on this race and Lael seemingly took it very seriously too. It's quite something.
We are used to seeing people swapping into cycling at the top level in other situations.
Rowers become Olympic track riders.
Roglic moved over from ski jumping.
Maybe Jakub is simply one of those people. If he has done multiple mutli-day foot races and had prior mountain bike skills why shouldn't he do well in this race?