Jakob Ingebrigtsen blocked Timothy Cheruiyot with 400m to go

He was in front. Nothing intentional.

He could have been dq'd for that move. It was the wrong thing to do. I'm not going to make a big deal of it. He benefited Cheruiyot by serving as a drafter and losing some of his final lap pop and gave up his shot to win by going to the front that early.

There was a mess up near the start with Cheruiyot and the pacemakers, which led to a slower 1st and 2nd lap than ideal. Bram Som was not going the right pace for Cheruiyot who tried to get the 2nd pacemaker up and passed Som. They still got to 800m in 1:51 but that was too slow to make an assault on the record (1:49.6 pace). So, with that gone they did lap 3 too slow to 2:48. Jakob was clearly wanting to go for time in this race and passed Cheruiyot as the pace slowed, cutting him off.

Anyway, at least we had Lausanne. As for this race, a tremendous triumph for a bunch of the guys in the back with huge pr's, which makes you wonder what quite a few of the Americans might have done with that kind of drafting.

Meh, wasn't that bad. Some guys here with a serious chip on their shoulder.

Not nice, Mr. Ingebrigtsen wrote:

That was a very low move, Mr. Jakob. There was no need for that.

1:36 into this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0chEpy9SHqw

I actually thought he elbowed twice. Once earlier when he was moving up

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Jakob got bumped pretty badly by that indoor 1500m WR guy in an earlier meet. Just racing.

My thing was did Jakob think he could go for home from that far out? He went too early...cost him a 3:29.

Karma Police wrote:

Meh, wasn't that bad. Some guys here with a serious chip on their shoulder.

A potato chip?

Who cares? Not me.

Cheruiyot was toying with the JV squad runners he had to race against

He was in total control the entire time

Tadwas wrote:

Subway Surfers wrote:

Considering Ovett beat some guy up in the 1980 800m final and got the gold while Morceli deliberately tripped El Guerrouj in the 1996 final and nothing happened. This was just a little bit of bumping.

Kind'a hard for Morceli to trip someone on purpose when they were behind him.

He was on his shoulder. If you knew anything about elite running you'd already have known that.

1) Yes it was intentional.

2) It's perfectly normal for rough behavior to appear in an international race with very high stakes. People get bumped and spiked all the time, ever saw the legs of Chris Solinsky back in the days? They were full of bruises.

3) If you can't handle being bumped or aggressive running from others, don't take part in a track race.

This isn't your regular HS or D3 college meet where everyone respects each other. Here all that matters is the win and position. Jakob did the right thing, he knew Timothy is in phenomenal shape so he had to use everything to his advantage. It worked to some degree, you could see how carefully Tim passed him at the end to make sure Jakob can't do anything more to him but the difference in ability was too much at this day. That wide passing probably lost him some hundreds/tenths of a second had he passed closer but he didn't risk another bump or even tripping.

Little punk thought he could outrun a Kenyan. Better think again. I also noticed he never congratulates the winner.

This thread is ridiculous. That really wasn’t a bad move. Much worse has been done on this track and in other races. What’s the saying that the Americans use? Rubbings racing?

He is only 2 years away from the world record.

Gggggg wrote:

Little punk thought he could outrun a Kenyan. Better think again. I also noticed he never congratulates the winner.

Agreed. Punk move. If it was in a tight pack or to get out of a box on the last lap I’d think nothing of it but while passing the leader with all the room in the world to his right? That’s just a lame, intentional punk move.

But the real foul here is the music.

yessss wrote:

Just a badass move. This sport is not for wusses.

Just sending Timmy a message that he didn't like the fact that he colluded to f up the pace.

This ^

There’s a good chance that Jakob was, you know, trying to win the race or something. Also was going for the Euro record, what’s he supposed to do when Tim slowed it down?

Coevett wrote:

It was likely accidental, but Jakob might have been annoyed that Tim was slowing and taking away the chance of a sub 3:30 and even a new European record.

Anyway, it adds a bit of spice to what might be a long rivalry between the pair.

Rivalry?? Yes, they have a rivalry like a hammer and a nail.

There will be rivelry unless Jakob passes Tim during winter.