Come on sir????? Who isn't excited in an Olympic final???? Who doesn't have nerves tell me sir?????? You are making ridiculous excuses for Jakob and why is that sir????
Jakob knew he would lose the race leading wire to wire, it's that simple, it's not because he was excited and got carried away. Well Josh Kerr got excited at Budapest in the final 200m when he found out Jakob looked strangely tame in his kick and got excited and took a chance to ramp up the speed to overtake him. Josh Kerr got carried away as well running wide with longer distance side by side with Jakob thinking he could beat him this way again like Wightman did the previous year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But Kerr won the race and all that excitement and carrying away didn't cause him any disadvantage right????????????????
Please think harder sir!!!!! Really, the level of reason and persuasion on this board is kindergarden!!!!!! If Jakob thinks the reason of his loss of gold is still due to excitement and getting carried away, then you folks need to teach him that wasn't the case. It was Hocker's superb PED timing instead!!!
He still took 4th place, which is better than me and you. So I better not teach him anything.
Well I'm not replying in particular to you just in general to the entire dumb LRC board. The level of non-pharmaceutically induced and RF-protected cognitive brain power on LRC board is really non-existent save for my own brain and concentration ability!!!!!!
'Excited' and 'nerves' is the last thing I would use to rationalize about anybody or anything because it's grossly indeterminate reasoning!!!!! I would say you precisely need to be excited to win gold and run fast!!!!! You don't want to turn up to an Olympic final feeling like hum-drum right?????
I meant to say Jakob is not breaking the 1500m WR in his lifetime fair and square with the previous generation of athletes like Hicham El King Guerrouj.
I want to see Jakob donning not aerodynamic tracksuit apparel but El G's cumbersome and wind dragging running shorts and singlet, and El G's lousy spike shoes and also El G's lousy track surface to run 3:25!!!!!!!
Well, what you want might different from what Jakob wants, that's how it goes, right? You're right Jakob is not going to race El G to break the world record.
He doesn't need to race EL G to break any WR. He doesn't even wear El G's shorts and singlets of old, let alone talking about the difference in shoes and track surfaces or wavelights. I assure you Jakob runs even slower if he doesn't wear his aerodynamic body apparel!!!!
I don't understand why you folks and fans want the sport to get faster and faster like this???? I rather it gets slower and slower and everybody loses interest in sport and does something else instead because that would be MOST HONEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Jakob is the fastest solo runner and capable of breaking the world record for the 1500 meters but finishes fourth in the race, it indicates that his race tactics might need some refinement. Here are a few possibilities: Pacing: He might have started too fast or too slow, affecting his overall performance. Positioning: He may not have positioned himself well within the pack, which could have hindered his ability to make a strong finish. Race Strategy: Perhaps he didn’t respond effectively to the moves of other runners or failed to execute a planned strategy. Mental Focus: Sometimes, mental factors like stress or overthinking can impact performance. Environmental Factors: Conditions like weather, track surface, or competition level might have played a role. In competitive racing, it’s not just about speed but also about how you manage the race from start to finish.
Nope. The Jakob femboys keep equating WR shape to gold medal potential and the correlation isn't as strong as you think because a few of his competitors are also close to WR shape and the margins for winning medals are tiny. You guys are still not respecting the competition. This ain't Jakob's to lose.. it's that he really can't beat those guys.
You came back just in time to help me defend against the very low cognitive brain ability displayed by the comments in this thread!!!!! You are indeed right darling!!!!!!
Jakob really can't beat those guys cleanly any more!!!!!!!!!!! A few had a leg up on him with PEDs while the other KERR was simply a better sprinter and biomechanical specimen.
LOL, I love your pithy saying darling!!!!!! I also recognized all the excuses people are making for Jakob with coulda, shoulda, woulda and so on and so forth!!!!!
I just hope he has better tactics going forward. I can't talk crap because some things I have done many many times that haven't worked for me :)
Exactly darling!!!!!! Why would Jakob apply even more worse tactics by now leading wire to wire in the Paris 1500m final????? He only has himself to blame for doing such dumb things!!!!!! There are at least 5 to 6 better tactical plans he could have chosen such as was demonstrated at Europeans in Rome where he accelerated every 100m from 700-800m out, why can't he do that in Paris in a much faster way???????? Not that he would outrun my man Josh KERR though as he would still lose to KERR in any type of race but at least he would have snagged a silver or bronze and beat those 2 American cheats in Nuguse and Hocker.
Fascinating calculations, no doubt about it. But it makes me increasingly interested in XC races with lots of climbs, where it's not about time but about tactics and the fight between the participants to see who is the best. I'm somehow fed up with world records with pacers in a V formation creating artificial conditions right up to the finish line. I'm sorry.
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