World Indoor Championships Day 2 Discussion Thread

ortun wrote:

Cunningham ran his best race in the semi unfortunately.

hawell wrote:

Wow 0.1 seconds between 1st and last in 60m W final. Is it tightest final?

Middling_Distance wrote:

Siiiick women's 60m, with an upset for Dosso of Italy.

Wow, that session was great fun!

Nice for Poland to get gold near the end of the action for the night.

Good times with the knowledgeable fans at LR chatting it up.

Primate1 wrote:

CongratsBut wrote:

Congrats to Kerr, very well raced but let’s be fair, if Ingebrit was there he’d have obliterated the lot of them and the times would have been a lot quicker

get well soon Jacob. Races are much duller without you

Yeah! Just like he did in 2023 and 2024 in the outdoor 1500!! Wait

ortun wrote:

Middling_Distance wrote:

Siiiick women's 60m, with an upset for Dosso of Italy.

Wow, that session was great fun!

Nice for Poland to get gold near the end of the action for the night.

Good times with the knowledgeable fans at LR chatting it up.

How is a silver medalist from 2025 and bronze medalist from 2024 world indoors, who also had a shared world lead, an upset?

Did I see what I thought I saw wrote:

Did Dosso kiss a camerawoman after she won? It looked like she knelt down to grab the Italian flag then kiss an Italian camerawoman, but I could be mistaken.

OACHaterzz wrote:

Over 3000m, Jakob has the upper hand both in slow and fast races.

YorkshireFell wrote:

Middling Distance wrote:

Pretty mediocre race after all the hype, I agree.

Hope these guys are enjoying their Jakob-free season. Because watching such a slow win will drive Jakob crazy and he'll be coming for a sub-12:30 5000 soon enough.

Kerr is a championship racer. Jakob tends to do best in DL situations with lights and pacers. The evidence shows this. I know which I admire most - racing and tactics are hard to get right consistently. Those that do are impressive in my opinion.

It will be good to get him back in the mix but he’s had a lot of injuries recently…

LarsL11 wrote:

YorkshireFell wrote:

Kerr is a championship racer. Jakob tends to do best in DL situations with lights and pacers. The evidence shows this. I know which I admire most - racing and tactics are hard to get right consistently. Those that do are impressive in my opinion.

Jakob have won a lot of championships for not being a championship racer.

Did I see what I thought I saw wrote:

Did Dosso kiss a camerawoman after she won? It looked like she knelt down to grab the Italian flag then kiss an Italian camerawoman, but I could be mistaken.

Middling_Distance wrote:

Primate1 wrote:

Yeah! Just like he did in 2023 and 2024 in the outdoor 1500!! Wait

Not a great post.

The 5000 is clearly far more relevant to the 3000 than the 1500 is. (Aside from being obviously physiologically, the 3000/5000 are grouped together by WA including in the DL, not the 1500/3000.)

Let's see: Who has won the WC/OG 5000 every single time he ran it uninjured?

2022. Jakob. 2023. Jakob. 2024. Jakob.

Jakob's 3000m ability (7:17) is on another planet from these guys. Only Hocker is remotely close (7:23), and as we saw today that he is quite capable of losing the 3000 to a slower runner (Kerr 7:30), let alone a much faster one.

Hocker won a paced two-mile against Kerr and Milrose. Kerr won the championship against Hocker.

But it's all just princes pretending to the throne while the king is away.

ransolo wrote:

NewfoundGrudgingRespect wrote:

You know what, I’ve never been a big fan of Kerr- admittedly for not entirely rational reasons. Don’t like the sunglasses indoors, don’t like the haircut, really really don’t like some of the ballix he comes out with in interviews.

But all that said, what a brilliant, brilliant racer. That was a masterclass. He always delivers when it matters most, fair play to him.

Completely agree. If you follow all of his movements and positioning through the race and compare those to Hocker's, it shows you why he tends to medal every single major championship. His awareness of what needs to be done at the different times of the races is uncanny. He may then have the energy at the end or not, but it is no for lack of smart running (vs. Hocker).

Middling_Distance wrote:

Stuck in a Moment You Cant Get Out Of wrote:

Coulda, woulda, shoulda. Living on reminiscences, dude. Might suggest you enjoy the races that are run today instead of re-running the loop that runs continuously in your head.

Oh, I'm not saying that Jakob is the best 3000/5000m on earth right now.

I'm saying that the field without him is weaker.

It's like following the 100m in in 2012 if Bolt skipped the season, or following the world chess championships lately while Magnus Carlsen watches from home. Empty.

Middling Distance wrote:

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

See the context. It was a poster acting like the race was slow or Jakob would’ve made it faster. The truth is he likely wouldn’t have touched the front until 800 to go in this one.

Fair.

I was saying that Kerr wouldn't be able to execute like this against Jakob, but I because think Jakob would wind it up from 800-1000 out (as in the Paris 5000).

I agree with you that he would not be likely to simply lay down a 7:25 from the front, as he's never really taken that approach.