After Jakob's 3:26, Kerr's chance of winning in Paris has INCREASED

jeff tallon wrote:

my two pennies wrote:

Honestly, I actually agree with this. Jakob's best chance in Paris was to smarten up and run a sound tactical race, sitting back the first 800m before making a long run for home in the last 700m to burn the kick out of Kerr and Hocker. His confidence is his biggest strength when he's struggling, but it becomes a weakness when he actually backs it up with times, because it turns into arrogance and overconfidence, which has been his undoing the last 2 years.

Kerr + the field with the advantage in an unpaced championship race.

One thing is certain. It wont be a comparitively slow sit and kick affair. Jakob will make it an honest race,possibly leading from gun to tape.

Sandnes wrote:

Nothing has changed. Kerrs strategy was and is: Sit on Jacob and kick last 200. Kerrs problem now, is that Jacob will be 2 seconds ahead of him with 200m to go.

Glad to be following the sport at this time, competitive and probably cleaner than ever. Paris will be awesome.

Sandnes wrote:

Nothing has changed. Kerrs strategy was and is: Sit on Jacob and kick last 200. Kerrs problem now, is that Jacob will be 2 seconds ahead of him with 200m to go.

Glad to be following the sport at this time, competitive and probably cleaner than ever. Paris will be awesome.

Isaac 800m guy wrote:

deezenemious wrote:

The dumbest part of this sport is that Jakob has no reason to not run a 3:25 in Paris. He won’t get caught

but he’ll run some stupid tactical race, and risk losing to Kerr, Yared, Hocker

Sad!

As an American, I would love for Hocker to medal, but the only way he could possibly do that is in an insanely slow, sit and kick race, which Jakob won't let happen

Isaac 800m guy wrote:

Isaac 800m guy wrote:

As an American, I would love for Hocker to medal, but the only way he could possibly do that is in an insanely slow, sit and kick race, which Jakob won't let happen

Oops

deezenemious wrote:

The dumbest part of this sport is that Jakob has no reason to not run a 3:25 in Paris. He won’t get caught

but he’ll run some stupid tactical race, and risk losing to Kerr, Yared, Hocker

Sad!

Sledge_Hammer wrote:

Jakob would be too carried away by the result like last year and thinks he can do the same in a non-paced run. Kerr would just sit on him and outkick him with 200m to go and run 3:27-28 FTW.