People in the thread are kind of hypocritical, mainly because the vast majority of people were saying that he needed to just go out and try to make it a fast race from the start but are now saying he's stupid for doing that. Pick a lane for how you'll criticize him
Olympic placement isn't indicative of anything, you wouldn't say Hocker is a better runner than Josh or Jakob especially seeing as they both hold world records and he doesn't
You nay sayers are actually clinically incapable. Without Jakob distance running is where it is now, it also loses %70 of its star-power and guaranteed next-level races. He’s made 3:26 & 3:27 a topic of conversation over coffee in the morning while the kids pack their crap for school. He’s done extreme things from a young age and your only reason for not liking him is that he actually goes for it in life and in personality. He’s what you bums wish you could be like for one single day, but you aren’t, and the odds of it happening are non existent because that opportunity simply doesn’t exist because it can’t, you just don’t have it in you. Sit down, be quiet, and appreciate a human being who the f they are in a way that makes with sport exciting again. God bless.
Lucious wrote:
You nay sayers are actually clinically incapable. Without Jakob distance running is where it is now, it also loses %70 of its star-power and guaranteed next-level races. He’s made 3:26 & 3:27 a topic of conversation over coffee in the morning while the kids pack their crap for school. He’s done extreme things from a young age and your only reason for not liking him is that he actually goes for it in life and in personality. He’s what you bums wish you could be like for one single day, but you aren’t, and the odds of it happening are non existent because that opportunity simply doesn’t exist because it can’t, you just don’t have it in you. Sit down, be quiet, and appreciate a human being who the f they are in a way that makes with sport exciting again. God bless.
The thread I linked is an example of the OP applauding Jakob's tactics, and there are many more of these type of threads.
I would much rather be me than be a narcissistic norwegian guy who is extremely arrogant to the point of being a parody, who at the age of 23 already is married to an influencer who posts videos of herself crying on social media, with a kid (I want to enjoy my 20s, not spend my time babysitting), who was part of a reality tv show as a child and was training full time before the age of 10 (that's child abuse). And even without considering all that, I wouldn't want to live in Norway.
He doesn't make the sport exciting, and I was filled with joy when I saw that he was 4th in the olympic 1500 final, and was behind Josh Kerr.