How is Josh Kerr Doing

If you go back and read the pre-race posts, everybody on here was expecting him to medal.

Kerr will take 2 to 4 weeks, but then he'll put out a 30 minute youtube video.

The contrast between how Ingebrigtsen and Kerr handled disappointing race outcomes could not have been greater. I used to favor Kerr over Jacob but that has changed. Jacob meets all challenges and puts himself out there even if not in great form. Through his video mini=series, he seems to take pride in showing the world he's human with a freakish skill. All his Tokyo public comments seemed to be that of an authentic person, not anything augmented or filtered through corporate sponsor PR hacks. Since Kerr does not seem to care about widespread concern about the severity of his injury, it seems foolish to care about him, period.

I wonder if Kerr is taking this quite badly because it's likely his last champs at the very top of his game. He'll be 29 by Beijing, not impossible to medal, but it gets less likely with all the talent coming through. I don't think he'll go into a champs again as a favourite. It's not the end of his career, but it feels like the end of a chapter

Every day that he doesnt post makes it stranger and stranger. His disappointment must be brutal but he is an entertainer not some sort of prophet.

I think he had a mini mental lapse, feigned the injury, and ran through the line to save face. I realise that's an unpopular opinion; but until I see the MRI showing the tear, I'm maintaining that stance.

You'll get overwhelmingly downvoted for this and so will I but this possibility is important to have out there because it is just that - a possibility. A couple of interesting things around this injury.

The idea that he injured it in the fall at the end of the semi-final is kind of ridiculous. If anything was going to be injured it might have been his wrist, his shoulder, maybe his hip because that is what takes the impact in a fall. Really think about it, how does a calf muscle get injured there due to a fall? I even heard "his other foot whacked into it". That must have been an almighty whack and if it was some kind of contact injury then it would have been there right from the start of the race, as it would have been in his warmup, and not just after 800m.

It's possible that he was cramping during the race and extended his muscle as it was cramping and consequently damaged it. That is the most likely situation. We know it was extreme weather, especially for the 1500m program but they still just running 1500m. They are on the track for three and a half minutes and not thirty. It is hard to believe that the guy who doesn't race a lot because he focuses on major championships and has a history of always getting it right in these major finals, all of a sudden didn't get it right and either messed up his nutrition or went in overly fatigued which is really the major cause of calf muscle strains. Pretty hard to just "strain a calf" especially as a 1500m runner because there isn't really anything explosive in a 1500m race. Ask yourself this question, how many 1500m runners at this level can you remember doing that in a race with a non-contact injury?

Final thing with calf muscle injuries - if you've ever had one they feel like someone had literally stabbed you in the back of the the muscle. They aren't just a dull strain type of injury, you really have to stop running. Kerr still finishes in 4.11 and he pulled up with 600m to go in about 2.15. Not bad to be able to run another 600m at 5 minute mile pace especially running the risk of really critically injuring yourself. Nobody wants to believe the alternative here which is understandable (not sure why, but okay) but if you take emotion out of it and look pragmatically at this, not a lot is adding up here including the radio silence. I don't even want or need an MRI to tell me that.

to the people who think he may have been faking it, did you watch the race? Did you see him limping/running while still kind of attached to the pack, and continuing to try to get back into it for several hundred meters, while slowly falling off the pack? All while very visibly limping.

Lots of ladies massaging his “calf” to health.

Mills was the only clean athlete in the 5000. He has been told to keep quiet.

Kerr fighned injury.

Why didn’t he fake injuries instead of winning a WC and a Silver in the Olympics? Why hasn’t he had a mini mental lapse in the other hundreds of races he’s run?

No offense, but I’ll go with “ridiculous” and not “unpopular”.

He's probably busy filing paperwork and talking to witness about how somebody took his championship medal from him.

Why didn't he fake injuries in a race he won and then a race he was only beaten in within the last 20m? Have you actually watched these races? Did you watch the heats, semis and prelims before each of these finals? Kerr did not look good these entire championships and certainly did not look good in the final, totally different to how he looked in Budapest and Paris.

I feel stupid having to even explain this, is it not possible that after 800m of this race, unlike the others you mentioned, that he just knew he was not going to contend and so just mailed it in and chose this avenue to do it? You don't think his ego is large enough to do something like that?

No offense, but your rebuttal there is even more ridiculous.

and how many times have you ever seen this in a 1500m race at this level. Go on, give another example where you have ever seen this type of non-contact injury happen to an athlete in a 1500m final before.

Yes, I did see that.

injuries to the ego are hard to diagnose in severity and have varying timescales for recovery.

It happens more often than you think. I've personally seen it on both the ncaa and international level. Sometimes the pressure and expectations just gets to be too much, your head spirals out of control, and you just want it over with. There is immediate regret. An example would be an international that I had the pleasure of recording quite a bit of time with on the track- him being super fit, having great workouts, putting tons of pressure on himself, feeling the perceived expectations, then dropping out. Again, there would be immediate regret afterwards.

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Runner Suzy Favor Hamilton on Why She Fell on Purpose at the 2000 Olympics: 'I Felt Like That Would Be the Easy Way Out'

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Three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton shocked the world when she fell 100 meters short of the finish line at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. "I went into that competition running the fastest time in the world and I was the one...

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But I guess this would never ever even possibly be the case with a man right?

We won't know until he's healthy again because Kerr never faces the music when things go poorly and just goes into hiding. I can guarantee if Kerr was as injured as JI was this year we wouldn't have heard a peep from him and he sure as hell wouldn't have gone to the champs knowing he had close to zero chance of winning.