The thread subject utterly disappears yet again in your narcissistic absorption with attacking another poster, as you do ad nauseam. You show no awareness that none of this will be of any interest to other readers of the thread. It is all about you. NPD in full cry.
Please leave and let us talk about the thread subject. Thank you.
You show you have no interest in the thread subject. Your obsession is with me.
your narcissistic absorption with attacking another poster, as you do ad nauseam. You show no awareness that none of this will be of any interest to other readers of the thread. It is all about you. NPD in full cry.
How about your narcissistic absorption with attacking countless posters, as you do ad nauseam? You show no awareness that none of that will be of any interest to other readers of the threads you write in. It is all about you. NPD in full cry.
So you are completely unaware that what you complain of you have just done yourself. Yep - in full cry.
It is an unfortunate reflection on Jakob that most of his fans here - with one conspicuous exception - are whining babies who cannot bear to read opinions they don't agree with.
What do we think Armys goal post moving will be once Jakob beats his 5000m PB? That Jakob went too many years without seeing an improvement in his PB so he still doesn't qualify for the all time great discussion?
I am not interested in whether Ingebrigtsen beats his pr but whether he beats 12:35. So what if he runs faster than 12:48 - it doesn't amount to anything if the "greatest" 5k runner can't beat Cheptegei's wr. So far he's nowhere near it.
What do we think Armys goal post moving will be once Jakob beats his 5000m PB? That Jakob went too many years without seeing an improvement in his PB so he still doesn't qualify for the all time great discussion?
He will have to come up with something. His hatred must live on.
Hatred? You are quite deranged. I simply think Ingebrigtsen is nowhere near as good as his fans say he is.
Your criteria are irrelevant because you pick and choose which criteria apply to different runners and different distances. You argue Jakob can't be an all time great when he's 20th all time on the 5000 list, but doesn't think that applies to Farah who's outside of the top 50. You think Jakob finishing fourth in a global 1500 final is an embarrassment and disqualifies him from the all time great discussion, but doesn't think that applies to Cheptegei in the 5000 who has ran 3 global 5000 finals and has finished 8th and 9th in two of them.
Of course I pick and choose the criteria that I think are relevant. Yours aren't. They are only intended to support your fanboyism.
You've already embarrassed yourself once in this thread when asked which runners meet your criteria. Because according to yourself Farah isn't an all time great because he went 12 years without winning a global final and is nowhere near the world records.
Of course I pick and choose the criteria that I think are relevant. Yours aren't. They are only intended to support your fanboyism.
You've already embarrassed yourself once in this thread when asked which runners meet your criteria. Because according to yourself Farah isn't an all time great because he went 12 years without winning a global final and is nowhere near the world records.
No, that isn't according to me but to you. You can only follow a discussion in your own head.
What do we think Armys goal post moving will be once Jakob beats his 5000m PB? That Jakob went too many years without seeing an improvement in his PB so he still doesn't qualify for the all time great discussion?
I am not interested in whether Ingebrigtsen beats his pr but whether he beats 12:35. So what if he runs faster than 12:48 - it doesn't amount to anything if the "greatest" 5k runner can't beat Cheptegei's wr. So far he's nowhere near it.
There we go again, can't be the greatest without the world record but somehow Farah is greater than Jakob despite being a full 5 seconds slower
Armys constant posts about how unlikely it is that a 12:48 runner like Jakob could ever improve enough to break the world record is an especially funny argument, considering that Cheptegeis 5000m PB before breaking the world record was 12:57.
A performance which of course was met with constant doping accusations from Army. Funny how he suddenly became Cheptegeis biggest fan once Army needed another runner to use as a weapon in his crusade against Jakob.
For sure you don't "want" to give any list: you can't.
Your first string of criteria is just fulfilled by 1 athlete, Herb Elliott, who has had just two seasons at the top.
Your new criteria is clearly fulfilled by Ingebrigtsen.
That you don't want to go in any discussion about the subject is understandable: you are not interested in the question. Your only interest is to put some specific runner down. Why?
Ovett for you clearly is not an all-time great. Also not Ryun. Not Keino. Not Cram. In fact; who remains?
Ingebrigtsen already is very high - that's not debatable. Top 5? Top 10?
Your opinions, not mine.
No opinions at all.
Just facts.
You contradict yourself regularly. When someone points on it, you run away. All your thousands of posts are worth nothing since you don't bring any new facts and you refuse any serious discussion.
I am not interested in whether Ingebrigtsen beats his pr but whether he beats 12:35. So what if he runs faster than 12:48 - it doesn't amount to anything if the "greatest" 5k runner can't beat Cheptegei's wr. So far he's nowhere near it.
There we go again, can't be the greatest without the world record but somehow Farah is greater than Jakob despite being a full 5 seconds slower
You really are quite unequipped to understand anything anyone else says. Farah's championship achievements far outstrip Ingebrigtsen's. They put him ahead of the Norwegian. It doesn't necessarily make Farah the greatest but he's certainly amongst them. Only his lack of records counts against him. Ingebrigtsen doesn't have championship achievements over the 5k that yet match the best - so he falls short by those standards - but neither does he have the 5k (or 10k) times that would put him amongst the very best. Far from it. So by both criteria - championship victories and records - he has some way to go to being amongst the greatest distance runners.
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You contradict yourself regularly. When someone points on it, you run away. All your thousands of posts are worth nothing since you don't bring any new facts and you refuse any serious discussion.
They aren't facts. You have just assembled your opinions. I don't agree with them. "Serious discussion" only means views that you agree with.
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