Norway has a new phenom? Andreas Fjeld Halvorsen accomplishes something Jakob Ingebrigtsen never did - Wins World Jr Gold

Kenya may have fielded a team of actual juniors for the first time in decades🙌🙄

Hilarious, you calling others immoral. You have no morals.
As for the "African domination in the past", look at the roads.

And steer the skiing juice to track as well...

Coevett your binary view on this just lets down your great knowledge of the sport. I assume you have read at least some of the many books and articles on Rift Valley endurance and surely it's crossed your mind that there may be some reasonable contributors beyond cheating?

Couple of points - obvs superb win for the Norwegian and rare GB-born world medal at this longer distance. The pace suggests that the 'race' became in practice more a test of 1500 pace which is always a not-just-East-African matter. Also I think that a few of the very best eligible Ken/Eth runners didn't show up because they are competing against seniors anyway and because the $$ incentives for U20 medals are likely modest vs what they are already making.

My guess is that Halvorson will be a great senior and that the East African dominance will continue - catching dopers will have some levelling effect but extra runners from Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda will offset this.

Rojo, it is not Fjeld Halvorsen. It is Håkon Moe Berg, 9 months younger. 1:49.39 - 3:37.25 - 7:55.82. BTW in his 3000 run he was five seconds better than Halvorsen. All the best for Andreas Fjeld Halvorsen at the 1500 tonight. But Moe Berg is the real challenger to Myers and Fayisa. He is ready to run sub 3:36.

Is it so? Why don´t you link a few of these studies?

He is talented no doubt but comparison to Jakob is a far fetched.

Jakob ran 3:30 already as a 19yo.

Troll, you seem to be desperate after Jakob´s last WR!?

Jakob ran 3:30.16 at 18 and 3:28.68 at 19.

So that poster was right.

I'm not sure what of the indefensible I was defending. Like you, I think Zakayo was overage. I added context to the discussion in that the 5,000 this year attracted the bigger talents and that the two biggest talents (Laros, Mehary) in U20 middle distance and distance aren't even at World Juniors. One of them (Laros) is Dutch by the way. You could note another, Ermias Girma, who won U20 gold in the 800 and silver in the 1500 in Cali is also missing. He won his 1500 heat in Paris before bombing the Semis, and he is a sometimes training partner of Laros.

I also noted that Jakob would've probably won a 3,000 had it been offered in 2018 and if not, he would've certainly been winning World Junior titles had there been a championship when he was 18/19.

You go to cheating of course, when it seems we are instead in a talent boom for Western athletes. Which is great news for the sport, and I, in particular, love as I'm American and USA is the best 1500 country in the world presently. It certainly makes distance races more interesting with Grant Fisher, Kenneth Rooks and Jakob picking up medals.

Yep yep

Norway has snapped or should I typed broken distance records decades old this month in the World Championship U20 I'm Lima..

To The Gills!!🍸Start 'em young!!

So if “African domination in the past was due to cheating,” is Jakob’s domination happening on a level playing field? Is he just so gifted? Like Daniel Komen, clean as a whistle?

*yawn* everyone is always the "next" prodigy... until they aren't...

come back to me when they have 3 world records and two olympic golds.

my niece was the fastest 2 year old in the country, does that count for something?

So much for the new phenom:

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Fayisa flies to 1500m gold for Ethiopia on day five in Lima | News | Lima 24 | World Athletics U20 Championships

A thrilling men’s 1500m final – won by Ethiopia’s Abdisa Fayisa ahead of Australia’s Cameron Myers – proved the highlight of the men’s action on the final day of the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24

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FINAL | 1500 Metres | Results | Lima 24 | World Athletics U20 Championships

World Athletics U20 Championships | Lima24

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Age difference makes a big difference at teenage years:

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Cameron MYERS | Profile | World Athletics

Cameron MYERS, Australia - 1000 Metres, Mile, 3000 Metres, 800 Metres, 1500 Metres

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Abdisa FAYISA | Profile | World Athletics

Abdisa FAYISA, Ethiopia - 1500 Metres, 5000 Metres, 3000 Metres Short Track, 5 Kilometres Road, 3000 Metres

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Good job calling out the nonsense. It's laughable how many people desperately want to believe in late blooming stiffs because they were a late blooming stiff. Numerous studies have indicated there is a correlation. Here's one regarding high school football star ratings:

https://footballscoop.com/news/stars-matter-recruiting-data-says

Laros 5 th in that all time great 1500 final.

What does that tell you?