"Jakob and I have been rivals for years" - Cooper Teare

Good point.

This board so full of old, bitter, out of touch losers. Neither Cooper's nor Jakob's responses are serious. It's banter for christ's sake. As the old adage goes, "It's not that deep"

I swear I'm losing more and more braincells everyday I come back to this website.

Cooper's real threat this weekend is Olli Hoare.

Who beats who?

Also, how will Cooper do when there are more than 2 other people in his race?

Who is encouraging our youth to do this. Prison tats are better

It's easy to mistake the irony of your basic self-deprecating, American white middle-class male if you are not from this culture. Cooper's making light of the fact that while he was in the race, he was not in the race (13:18 at 400m to go). It's also notable how far Cooper Teare has come since that day four years ago. He is now a 3:50 indoor miler (converts to 3:33) with an easy 13:06 5000m pr. He's also run 1:47 for 800m as part of a double. He's within three seconds of Jakob's mile pr. He's now also within 20 seconds of his 5000m pr. He's still not a rival, but he's closed so much of the gap that it has become a possibility at least, if still distant other than in early season races. He might run 3:48 this year. And the thing is that I and probably many others figured Cooper for a pro already based on a workout they showed back when he was in high school. Even when he's almost being lapped in that 2018 World Junior race, you can look at his form and see the potential. So, no, there's no rivalry and never has been and he knows that, but he's now at the level where he may make World finals and maybe even start to figure a bit in the results in the next few years.

Cooper Teare Jakob and I have been rivals for years.

Jakob on Cooper Teare is he a baseball player or something I have never heard of him.

That would be like Nick Simmonds referring to Elon Musk's wealth as a level in which he would like to get Run Gum to peak at.

Yes. Teare made the mistake of running the 5000 meters at the Olympic trials last year. If he had gone with his stronger event (1500m) I’m confident he would have made the team. The 5000m team last year was super strong for USA. Chelimo, who barely beat Teare, won a medal and Fisher was 5th in the 10k.

I think by July Teare is about 10th in the world for 1500 meters, but right now I think he may be top 3 in the world.

Seems like Cooper wrote this knowing he would get clowned and Jakob is just playing along. I’d be shocked if either of them was taking this seriously.

English as a second language. Who's to know whether he got the humor?

I was in the London Marathon with Mo Farah.

We're rivals.

The Oregon crew already trolled the 2016 1500m Olympic champion is only natural this (clearly joke post ) happens haha.

That’s really nice of Jakob to invite some us his biggest fans to run in the race this weekend in Eugene with him.

The distance between Teare and Ingebrigtsen is greater than it was between Centro and Hocker, lol.

I think smack talk is good for the sport. Brings more interest to a struggling sport

Cooper describing trying not to get lapped by Jakob in the 5k:

The dude is not serious lmao

LOL. good one!!

If it’s a fast race and Jakob runs 3:47, at best Teare runs 3:50

Jakob's going to go home devastated after going 0 for 2 on lapping Cooper Teare in competitive races.