and some of you will still come out and scream “Kerr is better than Jakob”

By measure of beating him head to head last year and this year in championship races.

your standard for hero is so so low. he flashes number one bc…he is number one and is confident in that. his countryman is coached by his abusive father. and he talks down to kerr bc kerr has been a sh*t talker since his lucky win when jakob was ill.

heros win olympic championships. heros run world leading times or WRs. kerr has no olympic championships and no wrs except that weak indoor mark that jakob lets him have.

what a hero lol

A hero wins the head to head matchup against his rival who started the sh*t talking. Kerr has done that three times in a row.

So you think front running a 1500m in 3.28 low is nothing, and a supposed ability to front run a 3.27 flat if he gets his starting pace right..? Who do you think can do this better..?

Josh, go back to telling us about how you’ve always been the underdog on your insta (preferably with a moody pic).

(for reference Josh has had the most privileged of privileged upbringings)

The 1500 just isn’t Jakob’s race. I think down the road - after he wins 8-10 5k golds in a row, breaks more world records, and does whatever in the 10k - people will look back and it’ll just be an amazing extra stat that he was also seen as the guy to beat in the 1500 once upon a time.

In a vacuum, Kerr is not on jakobs level in any event. In jakobs off event (1500) where he makes the entire race for everyone, kerr nips him at the line. And even then, he can’t beat hocker now. Thats basically it.

Do you celebrate 5k medaling?

One has 2 gold medals, and one doesn't. Think before you speak.

Jakob has beaten Kerr in every 1500m except the last three ones (included the Pre mile). So who is the best? -Well, I guarantee you posters here will keep on disagreeing with each other until something revealing happens: 1. Kerr keeps on beating Jakob. 2. Jakob turns the game and restarts beating Kerr, also in the champs.

So I guess we just have to wait and see. -Zurich is the first up coming…

Agree to an extent, but I think less casual fans also appreciate races beyond just the results, for how the races were run. Cole is the champ and deserves the most credit obviously but brushing off the fastest front-run time in history is kind of a casual take on the race. It’s either a lack of understanding about the event, or willful ignorance.

Kerr is clean

Jacob isn't

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If kerr and jakob race 10 times in a 1500m full of 3:35 guys, jakob wins 7/10 times

If kerr and jakob race 100 times in a 1500 full of 3:24 guys, jakob beats ker 100/100 times.

So please explain to me how kerr is better at 1500m thqn jakob

As a Jakob fan I will give you that Kerr definitively has been better than Jakob (and everybody else in the world) in the 1500m for a period around 6 months or so this year. But how is it now? -IMO we just don’t know; we need more races, and may even have to wait to after WC next year to decide. Or maybe not -who knows..? But I have good faith in my man Jakob…

Kerr will be fresh for Zurich while Jakob has had two hard races . ( post Zurich excuse #1)

their all-time record is at, what, 12 or 13-3? lol

by your own logic Jakob is the hero. Glad we agree.

Well I guess that settles the debate. Can’t argue against your made up stats involving a 1500 full of imaginary 3:24 guys! 😂

Jakob's WR doesn't matter. Josh Kerr is peaking for LA 2028. Nothing until then matters. If he loses it's because he's peaking. You wanna know why he got silver in Paris? That's right, because he was peaking for LA 2028. Get your facts straight.

If an alien who could run sub 3:26 came to earth and asked us to send one human to race it, and if that human wins earth doesnt get blown up, we sure as hell wouldn't send josh kerr. We would send King Jakob

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