Jakob Ingebrigtsen Goes home devastated

Actually, all the talk about Kipsang & Tim and Kenya goes home without a medal. Theyre the worst.

And his *teammate* won.

Didn’t know they had rabbits at the champs

Does anyone know what is going on with Jakob and his dad ?

Looked like he ran his best race an got beat. Nothing to be ashamed of. Maybe he isn’t the second coming after all.

Posted this in the other thread but figured I’d post it here too. Here’s the NBC replay. Jake ran great tactics, picking good times to move up to stay with the leaders, and staying locked on the rail otherwise. Jakob wasted a good amount of energy running three curves in lane two (that alone would have won him the race) and leading with no one to break the wind for another 1.5 laps. You have to be at least a second faster than someone who ran like Jake to still win with that extra distance and effort.

For the last three years, who have been told Ingebrigtsen Way is best. Train as a 1500/5000 guy, high mileage, 800/1000/1200/1600/2000 meter repeats. Now all of a sudden after defeat, J.I. is going to train like a Feed the Cats guy? Too late! J.I. needs to stick with the girl who brought him to the dance.

Used up all his energy celebrating his crushing victory in the heats.

He is still young. Add some diagonals work, etc., to the threshold work.

He isn't.

Jakob's done! Can't even beat some 2nd-tier Brit.

Mohammad Katir cruises into final easy then lays an egg. DFL last I saw him on camera. Too easy = no grit! No grit = no Katir.

Jakob almost never had grit until he beat Tim last year. That was his last bit of grit. He'll still have a lot more easy wins, but will never grit one out when challenged.

If you compare their 800m times, it makes no sense to hang back and let the faster competitors save their legs for the last lap.

no, his name is not pronounced 'widgetman', unlike the isle of .....

Your takes get worse every year. Katir just shocked the world w/ a bronze.

I don´t think Jakob should feel ashamed of his performance in the final.

He ran a SB in a race he was frontrunning from 800m out and got only beaten by Jake Wightman who ran the race of his life (so far) improving his SB with almost 3.5 seconds and his PB (from a 2019 Monaco time trial) with 0.24 sec.

Jakob beat his predicted closests contenders (Kerr, Timothy and Kipsang) with more than 1 second, Kipsang with almost 2 seconds.

But of course Jakob is not happy. We will see if he revenges himself in the 5000m.

My theory about the physical and body shape of Ingerbrigsten playing against him was true then.

It's runners with shape like Tefera that persist more.

Mohamed Katir (the LRC biggest doper), age 23, is gone for a good starting career.

In his first year of world championships...

Jakob was still the fittest person in the field, in my opinion, just made some tactical mistakes. He slowed it when he went to the front, should have kept it hard for the 3rd lap rather than letting everyone be in it with a lap to go. If he goes harder on the 3rd lap Wightman isn't close enough to get round him on the last 400. When Wightman did kick, there's no way Jakob should have let him take the inside. Doesn't matter how far there is to go at that pace, you HAVE to keep the inside. Of course maybe he just wasn't strong enough to hold it but if he had he'd have held off Wightman over the last 200. I feel like we're going to see some really dangerous running from Jakob this point forward, hoping he takes it on himself to just front run and ruin every field at major champs at sub 3:29 pace through 1100 and burn everyone off before the last lap. It's the most painful but definitely best way for him to win. Just take the inside, never give it up, and keep it as hard as possible, trusting he'll be the last to tie up.

Jake at 27 just ran the fastest race of his life!

So it is possibly too early to write off Jakob.