I don't believe Jakob is clean. injured and runs 3:26.7 a bit later?

Belittling? Dude you are the most delusional poster I have ever seen. You would be the greatest troll ever if you are not serious.

Maybe, but conservatives think Jacob is handsome?

Or, perhaps, Jakob is just better than Nuguse. Hell, Nuguse isn't even the best 1500 runner in the US.

I'm all for calling people drug cheats, but Jakob is nothing if not consistently great. An 'injury' can mean anything and unless we confirmed broken bones/torn muscles, most often it's pulling someone out of caution.

You realize how worthless your anonymous opinion is right?

He’s part of the Kenyan Olympic team. Stop relying on rumors. Komen is clean. Americans imagine everyone is “USADA” clean… interrogate Erriyon Knighton first and then Americans tell us why Americans avoid racing outside of the US in the name of it’s too far from the US 👀💉

Did you / do you not also run track?

Six weeks after your season opener, things are going to look remarkably different. I can remember hurting breaking four in the first race of the season, only to feel way more comfortable running in the low to mid 3:40s six to eight weeks later.

While anyone in this sport may be doping, setting a marginal (<0.5 second) personal best many months after coming back from injury is not surprising, especially when you have a massive aerobic base.

Jakob has the exact career progression you would expect from someone at the top of the sport. Phenomenal as a youth, extremely dedicated, and taking a thoughtful approach to his career. He has slowly improved and has set a new best every year except 2022.

I agree with the comment suggested by the thread. I also think Jakob is a poor sport and a big-head - but that's thrown in for free.

He doesn't hear about that stuff. Letsrun isn't the professional media.

His comments about "the next guy", winning "blindfolded" and now those who "fail to show up" don't count? I wonder who he could possibly be whining about?

Oh... it's REAL!

Months ago, after Josh broke the 2-mile WR while Jakob was coming off his shortened winter training phase (injury), I said JK has a LONG season ahead of him and that Jakob will be ready to run come summer. Then Josh took down Jakob at Pre in the mile and seemed to be a bit overconfident, he did run 3:45, but it seemed a bit much. That being said, this was Jakob's first race in 7 months, and he dropped a 3:45 as well. I knew then that Jakob was going to put up some fast times leading into Paris and was going to be 100% fit for the games. I also believe Jakob's delayed winter training was a blessing in disguise, it allowed him to set a training plan that would have him super fit later into the summer through the Olympics and into August-September. Not only is Jakob going to win gold in Paris, but he's also going to break the world record in the 1500 and probably the mile as well. After this summer, he will begin a 4 year build up and do the same in the 5000m.

The only true and viable argument against him cheating is his progression over the past 4 years, not to mention his consistent success at global championships. The dude has been running at a super high level for a lot of years and is now reaping the benefits.

You could have cut and pasted this from a cycling thread twenty years ago, with a change of names and events.

OK let us say they are doping, as seems likely. What would Peter Snell run on these super fast tracks in these super fast spikes? Did Peter run 1:44.3 on a grass track? What do you think these guys would run in those 1962 spikes on a grass track?

You do not understand the Zatopek effect.

Take all his drugs away and he'd be a 3.35/13.20 athlete at best.

Because he’s an arrogant excuse-maker with no charisma. I celebrate every time he loses or falls short of expectations.

Just duck off. Its so tiresome, if your slow you suck, if you're fast you dope. Got it. No more threads based on this mega brain insight please.

It's not the doping that bothers me particularly. It's the lies. And the excuses afterwards.

With this overall logic then Grant F. Is doping Or Yared that keeps getting faster he must be doping. Oh yeah Cole Hocket doping too. What about Kerr he is improving he must be doping. On and on. This crap of selective accusing of runners doping is just crap.

Nuguse and Jakob are competing at two completely different levels