Jakob not male athlete of the year finalist

These sorts of awards are entirely pointless. If you break a record or win the world champs or whatever, then thats the reward... Oh

For him and your ego.

Being in an open fight with your parent does make you unlikeable. He rightfully is not on the list

Right.

His breaking long standing WRs in the 2 mile and 2k, running the fastest mile in over 20 years, winning the WC 5k, and running two of the fastest 1500m races of all time is due to my ego. Makes sense

In 1998/1999 it was harder. El G was confronted to Haile Gebrselassie and Mickael Johnson. Reason he didn't win a 4th title in years where he beat long standing WR.

It's a good list minus Chopra. He's carried by social media and being the first Indian to get a World Championships Gold medal. Jakobs deserves to be on the list though I wouldn't rank his records in off events in the same category as Crouser or Duplantis who have redefined their events. Lyles deserves to be on the list with his triple gold, he talked the talk and delivered minus a world record(maybe 2 years in him left to chase it). Personally I would give it to Crouser or Lyles.

these records were both relatively weak and were longstanding because no one runs these events. on top of this, only one of them is an official world record

pipe down bud

The loss to Kerr bites Jackoff on the butt once more.

esp not after all those strange reports about alleged doping in india.

Just blasphemous for Jakob not to be included. This is like saying Neil Armstrong didn't deserve any credit for walking on the moon. Jakob's season surely ranks up there with the greatest of all time with one blemish in the 1500 at World's (not such a failure in the grand scheme of things as most would obviously kill to even be on the podium). I think Jakob suffers from what I would call the "sheer banality of excellence." His greatness is such that it can become boringly predictable and taken for granted. However, each of us should be very happy we're witnessing such incredible running.

I do agree but would've been better if he could win a 1500m after talking out of his ass

Believe or not India has currently 81 athletes suspended by the AIU. That's more than any African country.

Maybe they take in account that they have few elite runners and not impact the worldwide athletics like a country like Ethiopia.

In the women category the title will very likely go to Kypiegon challenged by the Ethiopian Marathon WR setter.

Not what this board was saying before he broke them. Funny how that works.

Crouser or Duplantis

Unless they open it to a vote, then Chopra will have his Instagram followers push him over

Jakob in quotes didn't win the Budapest 1500... otherwise with 3:27 in the 1500 and another WR and so on he really deserves a flat here 🤷‍♂️

Its a tri-part vote meaning public vote count for 1/3.