TriZoeTri wrote:
The real story behind Jacob’s dropping off the radar is the fact that post his win he stopped working with everyone that helped to get him to his win. As he said himself he had fatigue issues since a teen. He managed to get two TOP 10's and a second before the win working with the same coaching adviser, nutrition partner, management and even regular catch ups with Macca. Post his win he started to change all that and started looking at quackery! Check out the Ken Ware tremor therapy quackery that Jacobs started to follow like a guru....that was the start of the end. Talk of not needing to train Long, different nutrition ideas every time the weather changed......it all went downhill from there.....no surprise seeing him struggle on the bike by halfway when the Hawi Express has been scorching along and all he has been talking about are his say aerobic rides. Now he sadly seems to be a cautionary tale. A real shame.
I agree with all of this. Kind of sad.
In terms of this thread, no one mentioned LVL. He came out of nowhere literally other than a second at ITU world's Cleveland to take the win in 1996. OK what really happened was the the podium at ITU Long Course World's in 1995 with Lessing, LVL and Peter Reid taking the podium. No one was watching that, but it turned out the podium for the next ~7 Konas was dominated by Reid and LVL.