People hate a runner bec they think he is LIBERAL? Are you completely mental? You Trump-americans have completely lost contact with reality. Take you Trump-caps and your conspiracy theories and get lost. Jeez..
I came here to ask just this. I get that he does ‘cocky’ things sometimes, but he is an honest racer and brings an element of ‘coolness’ to distance running.
guy is definitely going through it with whatever Gjert was up to behind the scenes.
Because people are jealous, dumb and the fact that Jacob is the best.
People are sometimes very strange. They want Jakob to run WR every time he is on the track. Everyone is pushing him to always run fast. And when he "dips" (still under 3.30) people somehow change theire mind about him and trash talking him behind a computer and think they are better.
Sure, he loves running and competition. But the question is why lots of people still don't like him, despite that. My hypothesis is that it's because, in part, he just gives off a strange vibe. You may disagree, but it doesn't change the fact that many people nevertheless find him unlikeable. I don't think it's just because he's successful or arrogant, as plenty of beloved athletes are. I think it's something unique to him.
Anyway, obviously none of this takes away from the fact that he's incredibly talented or successful. I don't think it troubles him one bit whether he's like or not, nor should it.
I am so tired of retarted little jealous men like you, Jeff Tallon. Nothing else than spewing unfounded attacks against one of the best and most honest athletes athletics have. Shame on you. But you dont have the moral core to feel any shame, we all know.
Oh well,if youre tired of it,you can always just go away......i dont like you,so just dont engage me,and you wont have any problems..
I came here to ask just this. I get that he does ‘cocky’ things sometimes, but he is an honest racer and brings an element of ‘coolness’ to distance running.
guy is definitely going through it with whatever Gjert was up to behind the scenes.
"Lots of people see Jakob as an alpha dog, but I just see a socially stunted weirdo who never had to interact with anyone outside of his family's bubble."
I second this. The guy just gives off a weird vibe.
I don't generally like getting into sweeping generalizations about gender, but I've sometimes noticed that many women just seem to pin point the wierdos who can't be trusted. For example, there was this one guy on a mixed Ultimate team I played on once that all the women immediately and intensely disliked. The guys said, "Well, he's awkward, but not terrible, let's give him a chance." Well, turns out he had lots of anger management issues on the field, and we finally got word that the reason he came to try out for our DC team was that he had been essentially blackballed from all the Baltimore teams after getting into repeated fights.
Now, obviously, JI is much more socially adjusted than that dude was. But he just ... gives off this weird, anti-social vibe, even through television. Like there's something going on behind his eyes that's unsettling. You know it's there, you can't quite see or explain it, but it leaves you feeling uncomfortable.
Anyway, this is just me speculating wildly. There aren't a lot of other women on this board, so I have no clue what they think of him in general. Obviously, a successful, rich, relatively good-looking dude like JI will never be single unless he wants to. But if he wasn't a star? Well ... let's just say I think most women would avoid him for reasons they just couldn't quite explain. I know I can't.
And obviously, the Syril Karn resemblance doesn't help.
This is the most spiritually homosexual thing I've ever read.
"Lots of people see Jakob as an alpha dog, but I just see a socially stunted weirdo who never had to interact with anyone outside of his family's bubble."
I second this. The guy just gives off a weird vibe.
I don't generally like getting into sweeping generalizations about gender, but I've sometimes noticed that many women just seem to pin point the wierdos who can't be trusted. For example, there was this one guy on a mixed Ultimate team I played on once that all the women immediately and intensely disliked. The guys said, "Well, he's awkward, but not terrible, let's give him a chance." Well, turns out he had lots of anger management issues on the field, and we finally got word that the reason he came to try out for our DC team was that he had been essentially blackballed from all the Baltimore teams after getting into repeated fights.
Now, obviously, JI is much more socially adjusted than that dude was. But he just ... gives off this weird, anti-social vibe, even through television. Like there's something going on behind his eyes that's unsettling. You know it's there, you can't quite see or explain it, but it leaves you feeling uncomfortable.
Anyway, this is just me speculating wildly. There aren't a lot of other women on this board, so I have no clue what they think of him in general. Obviously, a successful, rich, relatively good-looking dude like JI will never be single unless he wants to. But if he wasn't a star? Well ... let's just say I think most women would avoid him for reasons they just couldn't quite explain. I know I can't.
And obviously, the Syril Karn resemblance doesn't help.
This is the most spiritually homosexual thing I've ever read.
woman here: honestly he’s kind of hot?
running away from the field tonight in the 2000m… sexyyyy
I love seeing him fail, I don't like him or Magnus Carlson or any Norwegian athlete. I'm pretty sure this stems from watching the winter Olympics as a kid and seeing this tiny country win instead of my home country 😢.
Worse yet however, are his moronic fan that also cheer for (Kipyegon and any other dominant athlete that can't lose that isn't American).I assume that if you're a Jakob fan, you're a child that watches Marvel movies and gets surprised when the good guys win in the end.
However there's just a certain letsrun sect that's so against him. But then again they're also against Kerr so now they're very confused. All they can do is lash out at Jakob
It's the sect that is emotionally or financially 8nvested in the East African myth. But yeah, they probably hate the fact Britain has won back to back 1500m titles than they do Jakob.
My problem with them goes far back. It all started for me all the Ingebrigtsen's threatened to boycott all future Euro championships if Filip didnt get reinstated after he got DQ'd for blantly trying to squeeze up the inside rail into a gap that never existed and tried to blame the guy he was trying to pass for pushing.
He's also nothing but disrespectful to his competitors in interviews constantly, he never gives them any props when he's beaten.
After Lewandowski beat him in Euro indoors, he said that Euros indoors didn't really matter and outdoor is all he cares about.
After Tefera beat him, he was sick
After Wightman beat him, he said he was embarrassed and that he's better than Silver
After Kerr beat him, sore throat and battling injuries
Earlier this year, he said he had no competition.
And that's before you get to his fanboys on here who are intolerable and downvote every comment no matter how insightful it is to the point of deletion. So its satisfying to throw a little back at them.
Exactly this. I just rewatched the Doha 5k, where Jakob tripped Mo Ahmed three separate times in the last few laps. The entitlement in that family runs deep.
I don't care that he's cocky, all the best athletes have egos. What bothers me is the active disrespect for his competitors and the parade of excuses whenever he loses. Instead of congratulating Wightman last year, he just started listing all the things he should've done differently in the race. Jake's response was great: "Yeah, but you didn't." Or earlier this year, when he acted like Hicham El Guerrouj was just some random fan in an interview. Whether he's trying to or not, the disdain for everyone around him comes out every time he speaks.
Lots of people see Jakob as an alpha dog, but I just see a socially stunted weirdo who never had to interact with anyone outside of his family's bubble. Not gonna apologize for cheering for him to lose, and I hope a different Brit beats him at every championship for the rest of his career. Plus his tattoos and his haircut look like sh*t.
All that being said, I do respect him for racing consistently, and I think it's good for the sport to have such a polarizing figure.
Nordic people are cold and unfriendly, read about sweedish dinner guests. His interview comments probably come across as weird to us.
Are you referring to “the Scandinavian arm” (Sometimes called “The Norwegian arm”)?
Well, as a Norwegian I can confirm that there’s a lot of flaws in my home culture, and even in the Swedish I think… But my search for the flawless in other cultures has also let me down -I think there’s good and bad everywhere people meet… One key fault many of us perhaps sometimes do is making stereotypes about other cultures.
Wow, do you people put your own personal projections onto things!!
Jakob has been unduly influenced by Henrik. Henrik has nothing to be arrogant about, but he is - and so is Jakob because of it. So what! He is just a runner. I appreciate him for what he is accomplishing in that sphere, and NOTHING else. Stop listening to what he says - I never pay much attention to it.
Seems to me many of you whiners expect him to be something that he isn't - a well educated person. He is a product of his environment (like most other people are as well, especially if they are not very self-reflective), for good AND bad. The difference is that I don't project my life attitudes on to him or expect him to live up to my standards of attitude or behavior. Why do you? He is just a runner after all, not the next coming of the messiah. Would I prefer he show better respect for other runners? Perhaps, but that is his personality, not mine. You seem to think that he should be likable by the majority of people on this site - NO ONE is that, at least not if they have any personality at all.
Are you referring to “the Scandinavian arm” (Sometimes called “The Norwegian arm”)?
Well, as a Norwegian I can confirm that there’s a lot of flaws in my home culture, and even in the Swedish I think… But my search for the flawless in other cultures has also let me down -I think there’s good and bad everywhere people meet… One key fault many of us perhaps sometimes do is making stereotypes about other cultures.
Anyone who comes to dominate in sport today has to be unbelievably self-absorbed. And a doper. That combination is enough for them to be dismissed in the personality stakes.