Don't forget about Lewandowski
Don't forget about Lewandowski
There's no doubt that Tim has to destroy Jakob tonight if he's going to be favorite for gold in Tokyo. If Jakob takes silver or bronze and gets within a second of Tim, then it's a moral victory for him and he would be odds on not only to win in Tokyo next year, but likely dominate the 1500m for the next decade.
Aaleby wrote:
Why it will be a sensation if Jakob where to win a medal (its in Norwegian):
https://www.tv2.no/mening-og-analyse/10893875/"All the other finalists made fresh legs to the 1500 meter. Jacob looked like he had been in a fight with patches on his legs and thighs, and with major burns on his shoulders and arms. So no matter how much both he, myself, and all Norwegians want him to take gold, or at least a medal on Sunday - there is only one thing to say.
If he takes a medal, it will be a sensation
Not because he's not good enough. It is him. More than good enough.
But because those he competes with have 10,000 hard yards less in their legs before starting.
The arrangement of Jakob Ingebrigtsen here in Doha is so extreme that he should not really have been in the final on paper. Big brother Filip smoked because of stiff legs. It was almost as expected. At least one of them should not do it"
Er... Sifan Hassan?
You heard it here first wrote:
all of you negative ninnies up!
What international race has he won this year? He's an underdog man
Wildhorse wrote:
Er... Sifan Hassan?
But Sifan Hassan is a likely doper.
And she won the 1500m in crazy style (and according to many here, could have then jogged to gold in the 5000m with 25 minutes rest). The Norwegian article is only saying that Jakob has done well to get to the final and it would be an amazing achievement to get a medal.
Why "likely"? For events that didn't involve her and took place before she joined NOP?
Gold: Cheruiyot
Silver: Makhloufi
Bronze: Lewandowski, passing a bunch of fading runners during the last 100m
Wildhorse wrote:
Aaleby wrote:
Why it will be a sensation if Jakob where to win a medal (its in Norwegian):
https://www.tv2.no/mening-og-analyse/10893875/"All the other finalists made fresh legs to the 1500 meter. Jacob looked like he had been in a fight with patches on his legs and thighs, and with major burns on his shoulders and arms. So no matter how much both he, myself, and all Norwegians want him to take gold, or at least a medal on Sunday - there is only one thing to say.
If he takes a medal, it will be a sensation
Not because he's not good enough. It is him. More than good enough.
But because those he competes with have 10,000 hard yards less in their legs before starting.
The arrangement of Jakob Ingebrigtsen here in Doha is so extreme that he should not really have been in the final on paper. Big brother Filip smoked because of stiff legs. It was almost as expected. At least one of them should not do it"
Er... Sifan Hassan?
Err...That is weak female running. It doesn't matter nearly as much. We are now talking about the real deal here - the men. Also, how were Hassan's legs? Did they look like they came out of a WW1 trench?
I had a dream last night that Tim and Jakob both get bumped off the track by Big Mac, who then storms to an easy victory. While Big Mac is celebrating in front of the adoring Doha crowd, or rather handful of spectators, an incensed Bernard Ouma comes running from the stands and breaks out some karate moves on him. Jakob tries to act as peacemaker and puts his hand on Bernard's shoulder telling him that Big Mac is not worth it, but that only enrages coach Ouma even more and he starts karate chopping Jakob as well. Filip and Henrik race across the track to protect their little brother, but so have the Manangois and it's soon MMA madness out there with the Ingebrigtsens trying to apply submissions and chokes on Ouma and his boys. Then out of nowhere Kyle Langford appears and starts throttling any officials who try to break the fight up. It only ends when suddenly a terrible bloodcurdling banshee shrieking rises above the spectator's roars, sending a chill up the spine of everybody in the stadium - it's Siffan Hassan screaming 'I AM CLEAN!!!'
This is a possible scenario. But Lewandowski has never had the strength at such speed. When it goes fast he doesn't run the last 100 very fast either. And Jakob can't run the first 400 very fast, but the last 800... so he has to try to close the gap from 700. Probaly a medal for him. And Engels is a dark horse.
Wildhorse wrote:
Why "likely"? For events that didn't involve her and took place before she joined NOP?
No. Because she was (as the only Dutch) on IAAF's leaked likely doping list from 2016. No surprise to me that she chose to go to drug cheat Salazar.
I agree that Jakob´s weakness for the moment is a very fast start. He can hope that the Kenyans don´t go all in from the beginning so he has contact when the train leaves. Jakob should be satisfied with a silver or bronze medal. His time will come.
Everyone except Timothy should be happy with a silver or bronze!
casual obsever wrote:
Wildhorse wrote:
Why "likely"? For events that didn't involve her and took place before she joined NOP?
No. Because she was (as the only Dutch) on IAAF's leaked likely doping list from 2016. No surprise to me that she chose to go to drug cheat Salazar.
You mean the same list that has the Norwegian brothers as suspected dpoing cheats?
awayyougo wrote:
casual obsever wrote:
No. Because she was (as the only Dutch) on IAAF's leaked likely doping list from 2016. No surprise to me that she chose to go to drug cheat Salazar.
You mean the same list that has the Norwegian brothers as suspected dpoing cheats?
It was only one - the older brother who wears slick sunglasses and looks like he's a 40 yr old master.
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/07/say-aint-fancy-bears-hack-reveal-many-track-fields-biggest-stars-likely-doping-see-latest-fancy-bears-documents/fastest, not fastest including a slower class wrote:
[quote]NativeSon wrote:
[quote]You heard it here first wrote:
Well, don't know if Kenya will have 5 golds or not but out of the 10 events so far that include running using the fastest people (this would not include women), they have only 1 gold. Not very good. In reality, they are tied with Norway. Wow!
100m-0 (USA)
200m-0 (USA)
400m-0 (BAH)
800m-0 (USA)
5000m-0 (ETH)
Marathon-0 (ETH)
110H-0 (USA)
400H-0 (NOR)
3000Steeple-1 (barely)
Decathlon-0 (GER)
Who cares? I count number of medals total.
Myprediction! wrote:
Gold: Cheruiyot
Silver: Makhloufi
Bronze: Lewandowski, passing a bunch of fading runners during the last 100m
Bingo! :)
You heard it here first wrote:
all of you negative ninnies up!
Perfect race to kill Jakob - fast start, no let up.
i don't think there were any position changes in the top 5, over the last 100.
Congrats to Marcin Lewandowski, NR and bronze.
YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST.
lololololol
Coevett wrote:
There's no doubt that Tim has to destroy Jakob tonight if he's going to be favorite for gold in Tokyo. If Jakob takes silver or bronze and gets within a second of Tim, then it's a moral victory for him and he would be odds on not only to win in Tokyo next year, but likely dominate the 1500m for the next decade.
Well... Tim destroyed Jakob and everyone else...
How do you think the odds are looking now? ;-)
actually he was a non-factor wrote:
YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST.
lololololol
lol
Letsrun.com