So let me clarify my position a little:
1. I stand by my “an unimportant clown race” because that race came instead of and ruined the race where Jakob would have run real fast, and not a weak 3.27 (that the three medalist did). -In a real race I think Kerr, Hocker and Nuguse as clearly inferior athletes should have been Jakob’s pacers (maybe paid) and helped him to a (near) WR. Saying that, it was a fun race; it was especially fun that Hocker got that huge leap forward in pr. But also that Kerr and Nuguse did 3.27. -Saying that, I must add that their 3.27s are of course artificial; meaning the three are only 3.28 mid guys in normal races…
2. Championship races are clown races pr definition because they lack pacers and pacing lights, and has too much emphasis on one single race, and on winning and racing and tactics. And not enough on fast times. And they are often unfair -especially the slow distance events in hot or/ and windy conditions. But there are exceptions -Rudisha managed to make a supposed clown race into a real one in 2012, and Cheruiyot seemingly in Doha 2019. But nobody helped the latter so he only got a weak 3.29 instead of a real result. And Jakob in that race should of course have been number two, but because of schedule (the hard 5000m run) he was robbed. -But again: I didn’t matter, because a weak 3.31 silver is nothing to applaud for a guy like Jakob…
3. Running is not about winning -that is a British / American misunderstanding based on unfair and shallow cultures, and a longing for glitter and falsehood.
Racing is about helping each others to run fast, and getting one’s potential out. -Running is, as everything else in life, about being good; being a good runner is being as fast as you can. Who you beat is unimportant and coincidental. Only the best should give winning a thought (because somebody have to be on the top, and then it would feel good if it was you) -but only as a side effect of being fast and setting WR’s…
Jakob is the saviour of a sport WA and a lot of you supporters do everything to ruin. But even he lives in the real world and has to adjust to prestige, winning and racing. Saying that, Jakob should of course have been disqualified for pressing Kerr out in the last bend (and thus ruining his win) -running is helping your competitors, not blocking them. But since Kerr was a parasite and has a parasitic mind set I think it was OK….
4. Jakob becoming a legend (back to back champion) like Coe? Well, that would be a step down, because Coe was not a good 1500m runner (had a 3.31.95 pb most of his career), although he wasn’t as bad as Ovett who was mediocre in every event from 800m to HM.