Jonas is just too damn wholesome
Pre stage interview
Journo: I hope you don't read everything on SoMe, but if you have to explain to the people who are now complaining about this decision (to help Kuss) and says its match fixing, what would you tell them?
Jonas: I'd actually just ask them if they feel like I should stab my own teammate in the back? Because I feel like I shouldn't.
Journo: So it is because people don't understand that it's a team sport?
Jonas: Yes it's a team sport, and Sepp has helped me so many times, so why should I stab him in the back? That's not how I am as a person. I don't want to do it, and until yesterday I've been in a rough spot, and I felt like I was in between a rock and a hard place.
Journo: Can you explain that, so the team wanted you to win?
Jonas: No actually we had decided internally to race for it, and if the other 2 decide to race for it, then I'll of course race for it too. But I would have liked to call of the race after the 2nd rest day, and be more defensive (to protect Sepp), but we had decided to race for it. In that way, I was put in a hard position, in my opinion.
Journo: Was this decision taken too late? (To let Sepp win)?
Jonas: I would have liked to see the decision was taken earlier. But in the end Sepp is still going to win, so it's all good.. or hopefully he still wins!