Jakob Ingebrigtsen calls Josh Kerr's podcast comments "a coward move"

MatthewXCountry wrote:

justanothercuriousdude wrote:

I think Kerr’s most insulting comment was as follows (and it came before any real insults from Jakob): “He is high on himself this one…” -The “high” thing is totally OK in my eyes. But the “this one” sort of says that Josh try to psychoanalyse and mark Jakob as a poor care needing unhinged self obsessed one… And this phrasing seemed intentional (from a raging guy who felt very much disrespected of his view of himself as “always been very good”, and now the best md runner in the world… -Jakob as being sick, and the consistently better runner unbearable insults to Kerr’s ego).

Thats a pretty convoluted reading (not saying its impossible) but it requires a lot of assumptions.

“He is high on himself this one…”

The more parsimonious reading is that "this one" is referring to Jakob as one of many runners, emphasizing that most runners are not that high on themselves and that this one is.

To me, this is a nothing statement. Jakob is high on himself, and apparently is a very sensitive person. That's ok, its kind of fun that he gets all riled up by much of nothing. Can't imagine how he'd handle real trash talk.