Awesome Jakob Ingebrigtsen profile in The Times: When I'm done, I want there to be no doubt I'm the GOAT.

What Kerr has done is to add some tools to his toolbox -this makes him far more mature and balanced. Jakob on his side also seems to have a lot of tools to use. -I think both now come out of this quite well and grounded…

Neguse doesn't have the killer instinct. But his talent is incredible. Kerr beat Jakob last year at WC and then Neguse beat Kerr at DL

...also he was 3:43.97 to 3:43.73 at Pre vs Jakob last year with a faster final 100 so it's not like he's way off. Since Jakob is going to have to front run to utilize his strength vs the fast kicks of Kerr, Nuguse, and most likely a handful of Ethiopian and Kenyan runners, plus Hocker, Kessler, Wightman, Nordas and Laros.

Jakob is the individual favorite at Paris but odds are still with the rest of field.

The issue is Jakob keeps paying it back even after Kerr stopped making comments. Jakob’s talking has become excessive and petty at this point. So far this year Kerr has broken a world record and won another gold medal while Jakob has done nothing except talk. Advantage Kerr.

Yes, Kerr has bettered his standing, also talk wise. But Jakob was silent quite awhile, and first now he returns Kerr’s character assassination…

Articles like this put the sport back into perspective. We're all waiting years and months for a performance that will last 3:30 which will either move Jakob up or down the ladder of 'greatest of all time'. It's going to be a race like any other; it'll go out slow or medium or fast, there will be a couple moves, someone will have more or less desirable positions during the race, and it'll all pan out in the last straightaway. Bonkers sport.

Bro…

Downvote at your heart content.

Only options for you are:

1. Afro descendances European/American

2. the 1500m Steeple Chase

We all know you are genius of the media art of manipulation.

Your bad reports about countries of Africa talk of themselves.

Here is another 16 years stolen talent that was bought by money (you know I was talking about wealth).

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Lamine Yamal délivre le Barça face à Majorque

Opposé à Majorque en ouverture de la 28e journée de Liga, le FC Barcelone a été délivré par sa jeune pépite Lamine Yamal, auteur d'un superbe but (1-0).

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Pruden Guerrero: "Katir is smart to accept the sanction as soon as possible"
The president of the Region's Athletics Federation is "convinced of his innocence, but athletes know the administrative processes and must comply with them." Bittersweet feeling after the Glasgow World Cup.

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Pruden Guerrero: "Katir es inteligente al asumir la sanción cuanto antes"

La presidenta de la Federación de Atletismo de la Región está "convencida de su inocencia, pero los deportistas conocen los procesos administrativos y deben cumplirlos". Sensación agridulce tras el Mundial de Glasgow

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I know this might sound CRAZY.....but maybe the interviewer actually asked Jakob about Kerr and his recent comments? Wild take, I know....

The same way he had a hard time recovering the last time Kerr beat him... when he won the 5000 M outdoor gold medal.... 4 days later

I'll go the other way. The reason this chatter is happening is that they are 1-2 and it's a clear 1-2, with greater separation than is typically acknowledged here. Fans site always love congestion when there is none.

Jakob will defeat Kerr. He's better. All the complicated stuff gets tossed out the window. Kansas City defeating San Francisco in the Super Bowl would have seemed like a nothing prediction last September. Then a lot of clutter got in the way to the point not many had that forecast in December.

and you are who, again?

Ok, so let's play your silly game.

So, let's say, sometime in the future, when athletics is fully entrenched across 200 counties with world population 20B, athletes struggle to get more than one Gold, so the GOAT will then be the guy with 2??

As the poster said, Jakob used the metric of Golds, so era does not matter.

Jakob is the most interesting man in the world. Other choice bits:

What others cite as arrogance, he sees as stating truths. “Some athletes are scared of saying they are going to win because they’re scared of the downfall if they don’t,” he says. “What’s the fun in being like that? If I’m not trying to win, then I’ll read a book.” Conjuring up a line that would sell well on T-shirts, he adds: “This is competition. It’s not a love story.”

“I’m going to say my competitors are irrelevant in the way I see them [as] all the same,” he says. “One of the main issues is they are very inconsistent and that means my rivals are always changing. From 2017 I have had ten to 12 different rivals. It’s easier for them to have a rival in me but not as easy for me to have a rival in them.”

Another remarkable aside follows when he says the 1,500m is not his métier. “I am a half-marathon man. That’s where I am best. I get a bit worse the further I do down in distance. At 10k I’m a bit worse, and at 5k I’m a bit worse again, and then the same for the 1,500m. I’m an endurance athlete. The 1,500m is my worst event.” He does it because it is the Formula 1 of athletics, and he embraces the conflict and clashing elbows. If he used the same tactics in the 5,000m, he says he would be deemed a bully

A godsend to a sport not overburdened with characters, he offers more forthright views. “I think doping is worse now than ten years ago. It is difficult to prove that but it’s what I feel. The problem now is we see less positive tests and that really concerns me; it is a sign that people are getting smarter and getting into a better system or maybe the test is not detecting enough. The way we are catching cheats now is just with ‘whereabouts’, and if you know what you’re doing that is a genius way of cheating.”
There is, he adds, an additional satisfaction in finishing ahead of a suspected doper. “It’s the ultimate destruction. It’s more embarrassing for them — even when they have the balls to cheat they’re not doing it right.”

It has already been a fantastic journey, but the former child prodigy is just getting started. “We don’t do this for fun,” he says. “We want to accomplish something. In one sense I’m proud of what I’ve done, but I’m more focused on what’s to come. You can be proud for so long but at the end of the day nobody cares. It’s all gone. That’s the way the world works.”

Regarding comparing performaces old and new. During Covid, May 2020 I had some spare time under lockdown. Decided one Sunday morning to run a marathon on my local track. Ran 3:19:53 solo. I was 53 years at that time and run 50-60 km a week. Winning time in the St. Louis Olympic Marathon 1904 was 3:28:53. Needless to say that the level of fitness needed back then was not at par with today. I ran 9 min. faster than the winning time.

Comparing different eras not very useful.

Hi Passant/Temp_Account.

No amount of anonymous names can hide your hatred/bigotry.

coevett stop replying to yourself

Sorry man Rojo, I'm a big fan of Jakob just like you and everybody, but with this Achilles injury, with also his loss of sacred masculine substance to Elisabeth his wife to produce an offspring, Budapest was the final time we ever saw the best of him in the 1500m and maybe even the 5000m, but definitely so for the 1500m!!!! He will probably get lots of Olympic medals but it won't be gold I assure you sir!!!! Time is my greatest enemy right now because I can't wait for the predictions I know to be true in time to be also true this moment I speak!!!!

Jakob is probably too young and innocent to understand this for he is only 23 like a baby boy!!!!!!!!!!!!! And how old are we, dear Rojo??? We are like 63/73/83 or otherwise and have seen everything the world has to offer. What does a 23 year old baby boy like Jakob knows and seen??? NOTHING.....................................................................................................

He is not conscious that firstly he cannot be compared to Hicham EL G because he wears cheater shoes, runs cheater track surfaces (outdoor), leverages cheater wavelights and is irradiated by infinitely more harmful RF than the days of EL G, Haile Geb, Kenenisa etc.

For him to say 'never to have this discussion again' is absolutely immature, ignorant and embarrassing for people who are in their 60s, 70s and 80s because we go:

"What youthful blunder and foolishness, sigh oh sigh..........God help the younger ones....."

The discussion can't even begin to occur until and unless Jakob runs 3:27 at least on Roger Bannister's cinder track with cinder shoes with no stadium lights to boot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jakob is so incredibly foolish after getting married and losing a portion of his masculinity to Elisabeth that I really have nothing to say and am dumbfounded!!!

Even Josh Kerr or Nuguse are not that stupid to say that right, dear Rojo????

I don't think Josh Kerr is looking for something in Jakob that he cannot find in himself, dear Rojo, instead based on my subjective prescience Jakob is the more inferior in mental and emotional aptitude and strength between the 2!!!!!!!!!

Jakob swore the flanguage on live camera after losing to Jake Wightman in 2022 while the worse Kerr ever did was to shake his head in disappointment!!!!

While it's always good to show emotion and emotional reasoning in combination with intellectual ones in yin/yang balance/equilibrium, Jakob's Flanguage tirade was particular susceptible or made more particular susceptible after his latest folly of comparison with Hicham EL G!!!!!!!

His morally depraved belief that he can out duel El G as the greatest of all time without understanding metaphysically whether the comparison is even relevant confirms that his Fword tirade in 2022 was born of moral depravity. This is how I conduct and master reason and persuasion and reveal invisible truths!

The way you talk with the use of vulgar F language sounds very rude and uncouth.

No Hobbs won't be in time to beat Josh Kerr or Nuguse but will be in time to beat Jakob I agree!!!!

Jakob's career is over since November 2023 last and everything he does from now would be having a safe career while maximizing profits. It will be a different mindset because he knows he is no longer the same Jakob of 2021/2022/2023.