Peach Pit wrote:
They’ll surely both be contending in the 1500 for years to come. I don’t buy the idea that Jakob’s body is breaking down because he’s been training at an elite level for longer. Especially in a year where he broke 2 WRs indoors. People just have short attention spans.
Jakob could come back in 2026 and break a couple of world records and I wouldn't be surprised at all. But the people in this thread worried about Jakob's future aren't being clouded by recency bias. They've actually made two astute points that:
1) Jakob has been training as a pro since his early teens and his two older brothers that diid the same thing both peaked around 23/24 and developed injuries that hampered the rest of their careers.
2) Jakob had a fairly significant Achilles injury at the start of 2024 and a very significant one in 2025. Back-to-back years like that is no bueno.
Ironically, if there is a silver lining for Ingebrigtsen in this, it's the example of Hocker. Because Hocker had a stress reaction derail his 2022 season and got a late jump on 2023 due to an Achilles injury, and followed that up with the two best years of his career. So I do think we are perhaps underrating Hocker's susceptibility to injury. But of the two, I feel more confident in Hocker's ability to stay healthy moving forward than Jakob.