The dude is way faster than I was and my top end 400m Speed was 48.20 with a 3:45.09 1,500m best and a 1:52.05 open 800m. I would estimate all out Jakob is hitting a 400m in 46.7 to 47.5 minimal.
You can’t use your times (which include an exceptionally fast 400 that suggests you underperformed at 800) and extrapolate to deduce Ingebrigtsen’s. He is a 7:54 2-miler, a complete aerobic freak. I’d be very surprised if he could break 48 for 400.
^ this.
Plus: I'd expect a 48.2 open 400 runner with a 3:45 best for 1500 to be more like a 1:48 runner and not only 1:52.
Impala, I normally agree with you but I really don't think that can be representative. I could (well, not now, would probably tear my leg in half) get near to 13 and I am 100% positive that Mo Farah would leave me in the dust and also have time to celebrate. I don't think that could have been run anywhere near his prime!
I want to clarify that comment, ha ha. Everyone knows those shows are not good, they can be dangerous, it's for money, publicity and so on. So I do not think that Mo Farah would compete in this show when he is in amazing form, peak performance... his very best. Or that he would get an optimal result.
I think if we put Mo in a 100m matched race when he was in his optimal form in a hot place we would see a much, much better result.
Jakob ain't touching the 1500m, Mile, or 2k Record. El G the Goat. Jakob don't have the raw speed. El G closed 1:46 in the LAST 800m of 1500m in the 2004 Olympic Final. North Africans have superior genetics in Mid Distance competitions. Stop with the racist allegations that El G Doped. There is no evidence that he did.
And North Africans have little difference in genetics to other Mediterranean peoples. They had absolutely no history before Morceli.
Well, if you want to disregard Morocco's Said Aouita, the great Tunisian Mohammed Gammoudi, and even Alain Mimoun (born Ali Mimoun Ould Kacha in Algeria in 1921), your statement might be credible. But you're overlooking multiple Olympic champions, which is too bad. If you read up on the history of the sport you may learn more about North Africa's rich history of distance runners, many of whom took up the sport well before either Morceli and his older brother.
Jakob ain't touching the 1500m, Mile, or 2k Record. El G the Goat. Jakob don't have the raw speed. El G closed 1:46 in the LAST 800m of 1500m in the 2004 Olympic Final. North Africans have superior genetics in Mid Distance competitions. Stop with the racist allegations that El G Doped. There is no evidence that he did.
Jakob ain't touching the 1500m, Mile, or 2k Record. El G the Goat. Jakob don't have the raw speed. El G closed 1:46 in the LAST 800m of 1500m in the 2004 Olympic Final. North Africans have superior genetics in Mid Distance competitions. Stop with the racist allegations that El G Doped. There is no evidence that he did.
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