How Jake Paul really felt when fiancee Jutta Leerdam won Olympic gold

Jake Paul says Jutta Leerdam’s Olympic gold came after a huge pressure moment

Paul described the scene in a clip shared via CryptoMikli, explaining just how tense things had become before Leerdam’s race.

The pressure was heightened because the skater immediately before her had already produced something special, forcing Leerdam to answer on the biggest stage possible.

He said, “The girl right before her set the Olympic record. We were all like, ‘Oh my God, she might not win right now.’ Then she just f______ comes out, sets a new Olympic record, and wins.”

That description matches how dramatic the event really was, because Leerdam had to respond instantly after the standard had just been raised.

Jutta Leerdam won Olympic gold by breaking the 1000m record in Milan

The reason Paul’s reaction was so emotional is that Leerdam did not just win; she did it in the biggest way possible at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Official Olympics coverage says Leerdam won gold in the women’s 1000m speed skating on February 9, 2026, at Milano Cortina, clocking 1:12.31 to set a new Olympic record.

Her Dutch teammate, Femke Kok, had broken the record in the previous race with 1:12.59, before Leerdam immediately went even quicker to take gold, with Japan’s Miho Takagi finishing third for bronze.

That context makes Paul’s second comment easy to understand, because he believed Leerdam had the winning speed before the rest of the world had seen it play out.

He said, “I could tell she was going to win before everyone else because I saw her times. That’s why I was already crying.”

It was also Leerdam’s first Olympic gold, improving on the silver medal she won in the same event at Beijing 2022, which is why the moment carried so much weight.