Ingebritsen needs to use his elbows throughout the race. Africans use predatory, aggressive team tactics that always involve boxing in and crowding their enemies. He has to push them out of the way.
This Is an interesting scenario, think about It. Kiplimo and Cheptegei making insane fast pace and Hagos Gebrhiwet smashing the race with his crazy furious unbeatable last 600m.
This is really happening, happening i am not scaremoungering.
Is he your buddy? Why does he necessarily have to win? Why should I be scared of him losing? It's not gonna hurt my feelings if a 5000 specialist wins the 5000 by running too fast.
It's gonna be in the interest of certain runners to pace a race that Jakob wouldn't like. I just wish Kejelcha was running. He'd take it out at pace with Kiplimo and Gabrhiwet right behind him.
Here is the Ethiopian team for Paris according to a recent article in the World Athletics
That's a sad state of affairs. Kejelcha's not in the 5,000 despite running 12:38, in favor of a guy who's never beaten him, and who he's beaten 5 times in the past couple of years on the roads and track. Barega's never beaten him either. I understand that Ethiopia is mad at Kejelcha for not medaling enough, but he's a great.
On the women's side, Tsegay gets to triple and everyone else has to beg for scraps.
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Anything slower than 13 min is a gift wrapped gold medal for Jakob. Anything faster gives the field a slightly better chance, but even that seems difficult. If they go out fast (which all intentions seem to point that way), Jakob will have to do zero work besides tuck in behind the top group and wait til 200 to go. If Jakob is on his A game, good luck because I think he’s unbeatable regardless of the pace. His engine is waaay too good, and nobody can hang with him on the last 400. There’s a reason he hasn’t lost at this distance since the 2019 World Championships.
Agreed. Even in the 2019 race, I think he would've gotten bronze if he waited longer to make his move instead of trying to make the long drive out and fading at the end.
There are ton of videos that show that Jakob has no final speed.
Just look at the preceding 3000m with Kechelja, or the 1500m of DL Oslo with T. Chereuiyot, or the EURO 1500m final 2018 that show him runinng like a poney.
You mean when he was 17 years old and thought - coming down the home straight - that 1 lap was still remaining (the organizer had forgot to change the lap counter to zero).
The only way Jakob loses the 5000m at the Olympics is if someone trips him up on the final lap. He won Budapest sick last year (allegedly), and there isn't anyone faster or stronger in the field this year. Probably the only guys who could beat Jakob at the 5k now are prime EL G, Bekele, and Haile.
Daniel Komen would like to have a word.
We never really got to see Komen handle championship 5ks except for the 1997 WCs, which was an impressive race admittedly. In terms of DL races, Geb sat on and dusted him most of the time except when Komen broke him in Zurich the year before (96). I can't see him ever outkicking or dropping Jakob no matter what he does, despite being in similar fitness at their peaks.
The only way Jakob loses the 5000m at the Olympics is if someone trips him up on the final lap. He won Budapest sick last year (allegedly), and there isn't anyone faster or stronger in the field this year. Probably the only guys who could beat Jakob at the 5k now are prime EL G, Bekele, and Haile.
Pretty much this. You could also give a case to 2020 / 2021 form Cheptegei (his Tokyo performance is up there) if he was going into it fresh and Jakob doubling back, but other than that I don't see any other athletes being on this level in the 5000.
Speaking of, am I being a bit unreasonable to think Cheptegei might actually be solidly out of the medals this time? I was willing to give him some slack since he usually rounds into form well as the season progresses (12:50 soundly beaten in Florence to 12:41 behind Aregawi in Lausanne last year), but doesn't seem to be in the same shape this year.
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I don't think we have a Bekele-caliber athlete and Cheptegei isn't in the same shape. I don't see him losing the 5000 barring injury or poor recovery after the 1500.
Jakob ran 52.45 last lap and 3:54 last 1600m in Budapest last year when he was sick.
Jakob ran 52.45 last lap and 3:54 last 1600m in Budapest last year when he was sick.
While true, Bekele's race was 14 seconds faster and without supershoes. Conservatively giving supershoes a .5s per lap adjustment in the 5000, it's the equivalent of running 12:51 with a low-53 last lap and a 4:53-high last 2000 (so a 4:00 1600 before that kick). I think it's more impressive than anything Jakob's done in a 5,000.
Jakob ran 52.45 last lap and 3:54 last 1600m in Budapest last year when he was sick.
While true, Bekele's race was 14 seconds faster and without supershoes. Conservatively giving supershoes a .5s per lap adjustment in the 5000, it's the equivalent of running 12:51 with a low-53 last lap and a 4:53-high last 2000 (so a 4:00 1600 before that kick). I think it's more impressive than anything Jakob's done in a 5,000.
Bekele also closed a 12:48 in 53. I don't think Jakob is there yet.
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