Bepop wrote:
This is going to be difficult for the fanboys to process, but the shoes and fast tracks are a big deal. Maybe even advances in doping too will mean that Jakob will retire with zero world records in the 15, 3, 5 , 10 or steeplechase. If somehow he has the 2 mile and 2000m because they are not often contested, those will be the only ones. Jakob can break the 3000m record, and he might do it, but he won’t retire with the record. It is contested more often and with the bigger talents out there, someone else with break it. So Jakob will be considered one of the greats, but not in the running for the GOAT. Recency bias is deluding his fanboys to the contrary.
It depends when he decides to retire. If he retires without having moved up in distance to the likes of the marathon (very unlikely as he has already said he wants all world records up to the marathon) then some of the world records on the track from the 1500m - 10,000m he sets will still likely be intact. If he runs for a number of years contesting only marathons, half marathons, then those track records stand a bigger chance of getting broken by the time he retires.