Fabio Jakobsen

2022 - 7 - 20

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Fabio Jakobsen makes Tour de France timecut by 16 seconds (VeloNews)

Dutch sprinter slumps against barriers after battle to stay in the race.

There is an chance that Friday’s stage to Cahors could also finish in a big sprint. It wasn’t about calculations, because it was clear it would be tight; today was just about making it, and Fabio did that, which is the most important thing. — Fabio Jakobsen (@FabioJakobsen)July 20, 2022 “Today was full gas from the beginning, a very fast and hard stage that put many on their limits. — Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team (@qst_alphavinyl)July 13, 2022 — Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team (@qst_alphavinyl)July 20, 2022

Fabio Jakobsen survives penultimate mountain stage with 15 ... (CyclingTips)

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl's Fabio Jakobsen was the last rider to finish stage 17 at the Peyragudes altiport, coaxed homeward by a small crowd of teammates and ...

He had it a lot already to come back from his injury and now he had it also to survive in the mountain stages.” At 143.2 km with two hors-category and one Cat.1 climb, finishing on the mythical Hautacam (13.5 km at 7.9%), it’s going to be another attritional day, especially with things so tight in the fight for yellow. Or for that matter, a sprinter’s lead-out man; Jakobsen lost keystone support rider Michael Mørkøv to the time cut on stage 15 earlier this week. The primary job for Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl will be to get Jakobsen to Paris and the unofficial sprinters’ world championships on the Champs-Elysées. I stayed with him today, as I always want to do, I want to go to the max for him. He finished with just 15 seconds to spare.

Tears as Fabio Jakobsen makes Tour de France time cut by 15 ... (Cycling Weekly)

Should the sprinter survive the final day in the mountains he has two chances at winning again.

The prize of potentially winning on the most famous boulevard in cycling is what continues to drive Jakobsen, with just one more day in the mountains to come. The differences between the two Grand Tours are stark, Steels explained: "Time limits in the Tour are always different to the time limits in the Giro or the Vuelta: they’re so tough to get inside a time limit because of the quality of the riders, because of the speed, because of the parcours. "He has a lot of character that he showed today, and that’s something he needed today. "The fight for the time limit was the whole day, he set a pace that he wanted to do. The teammates don’t make a big difference [at that point] and it’s just a fight against himself. On the fourth and final climb, Quick-Step instructed his designated domestiques, Sénéchal, Mikkel Honoré and Yves Lampaert, to leave him so that they too would not miss the time cut.

Jakobsen makes Tour de France time cut by 15 seconds (Cyclingnews.com)

The Dutchman cut a lonely figure on the viciously steep final 200 metres, a distance that would take a couple seconds on a sprint stage but on the category 1 ...

Today's cut was 37:01. He made it by just 15 seconds, finishing the stage in 3:36:48 and, cheered on by his teammates, was pushed to the team bus to fight another day. Riding in his first Tour de France, Fabio Jakobsen supplanted last year's four-time stage winner green jersey winner Mark Cavendish in his team's selection with an aim of winning stages. Image 1 of 6 Image 1 of 6 Image 1 of 6 Image 1 of 6

Fabio Jakobsen makes Tour de France time cut by 15 seconds ... (Canadian Cycling Magazine)

The sprinter had to absolutely wreck himself in the super-tough 18 per cent final climb to the Peyragudes ski station. Fans screamed and cheered for him as he ...

As the QuickStep crew watched him crest the summit, they watched the seconds tick by on the clock. Fans screamed and cheered for him as he pushed to make it to the finish. On Stage 17, QuickStep-AlphaVinyal’s Fabio Jakobsen finished inside the time cut by just 15 seconds.

'Turmoil and pain' - Emotional Fabio Jakobsen 'fight' to finish at Tour ... (Eurosport.co.uk)

The fighting spirit and determination to put in the hard yards from Fabio Jakobsen on Stage 17 of the Tour de France has drawn a comparison to Usain Bolt.

Tour de France That final 200 metres took him 1’15” compared to his normal 200m in a sprint takes him 10 seconds. Tour de France

'My heart rate doesn't respond as normal' - Fabio Jakobsen fights ... (Cycling Weekly)

No words were necessary. Fabio Jakobsen had suffered through the Pyrenees and was only just still in the Tour de France he had dreamt of riding for years.

Having trained as a journalist at Cardiff University I spent eight years working as a business journalist covering everything from social care, to construction to the legal profession and riding my bike at the weekends and evenings. “Without the team you are you are nothing. “The team is everything as a sprinter,” he said. In the early part of the day Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl had worked hard to keep the peloton together because they feared a fast break that was given a lot of time could endanger Jakobsen by making the time cut too small. Fabio Jakobsen had suffered through the Pyrenees and was only just still in the Tour de France he had dreamt of riding for years. When asked how hard the race’s last day in the high mountains had been he simply puffed out his cheeks in a long exhale.