THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
He never said the loss doesn’t count. He actually in the moment explained why he wasn’t in shape to win the race. Which he believed was sickness.
Anyone interpreting it as “the loss doesn’t count” is looking to get upset over a guy simply explaining what he thinks happened. You can’t put words in his mouth and weird inferences from his comments and then talk about dumb logic. There’s some big rush to act like Jakob can’t admit when he’s lost, when in 2022 he literally owned up to screwing up the tactics and costing himself the race.
Nah I think you're reaching severely here. Saying you're sick immediately after 3 races you just lost (indoor world champs, world champs and Monaco 2021) *is* disrespectful of the winner. You're also rewriting history with this 'Kerr didn't address his poor 2022 until a year later' angle. I remember specifically Kerr addressing that he wasn't at the level he needed to be at in various interviews that year and saying things like 'I'm going to give it my all and see what happens'. I even remember him talking to BBC during CW games and leaving me with the distinct impression he was going to be nowhere near the podium. So quit the history rewrites. Whilst we're at it, Jakob did not take the loss to Wightman with much more dignity- you're acting like he gave some gracious speech. Whilst on that occasion he didn't blame illness, he did say something like "how can I be so good and yet so terrible?" in the immediate aftermath. Not 'he was the better man tonight' but 'he only won because I ran terribly'. Wightman would hardly be delighted with that assessment.
Essentially, neither of them are particularly nice or gracious in the press, but of the two, JI has very obviously insulted more of his competitors and offered way more excuses. When Wightman won gold, who ran over and hugged him on the ground with a big smile on his face? Clue: it wasn't JI.
