Jakob Ingebrigtsen officially confirms he is injury free and will run in Tokyo

“In a roundabout way”

He will maybe run the race differently (with better tactics).

Just nabbing a medal is a very tall order with no races under his belt. Very tough in distance races.

Mad respect for him running, he's a true gamer. But if I were placing money on it, I'd say he gets zero medals if he tries to run both races.

What are those better tactics? I believe that him shortening the race the will only play in to the hands of the kickers. I think his only chance is to run a wire-wire 3:27. Posters always talk about him running accelerating laps, but doing so won’t gap the kickers.

probably before the US 5000m, but after Hocker shocked the world with that 51 last lap, he should be the favourite in Tokyo, not Jakob.

Finally? He won in 2021 on the stage that truly mattered

lol

those tactics are like those from Toyko Olympics when he had no global success

He can’t run wire to wire 327 for the win when 4-5 guys in the race can run 327

How many times do we have to run this experiment?

If he has run 324, ok he could think about 3:26 solo, but he hasn’t and hes slowly learning that fact

That’s not very likely. They’re close to even in the 1500m but Ingebrigtsen is much better at 3000m and that trend will continue into the 5000.

People always predict a slow pace in WC, or Olympics for 5000, but I believe this time will be different. In Paris, the East-African were willing to concede the Gold to Jakob, but a slow pace this time could result in them being swept out of the medals.

you don’t even know who is in the final of the 5000 yet so silly prediction

Two of them are Hocker and Ingebrigtsen. Fisher beat all but one of them in Paris, and Young has shown a good kick this year. Almgren or Laros?

In response to the other poster, Hocker kicking to a win off of 13:40 pace doesn’t mean much. At the WC, a 13:00 pace would be close to his PR and he’s not going to be anywhere near running a 51 last lap.

you seem to be manically firing off hot takes here — slow down and read what you are writing

i was responding to you thinking the ‘east africans’ will set a fast pace

happened once in 2019, been predicted ever since, hasn’t happened

and, like i said, you don’t even know whos in the final yet

we dont know what events people are even declared for yet

slow. down.

Jakob won in Tokyo. And don’t claim you were veing sarcastic.

The point of accelerating the laps isn't to gap the kickers, it is to get them jostling for position, running extra distance and wasting energy. Nick Willis has a nice long explanation when he gave his assessment prior to Paris Olympics when he correctly predicted Hocker to win.

What is this Hockermania all about? Yes, yes, he ran a marvelous 1500 in Paris. This year 3:30.37. His third best ever. And that's it. And suddenly he is going to run exeptionally well again? Why? The three kenyans in the WC better than him this year, three norwegians, two americans, two dutch. Laros is the man to beat. And Hocker is not the man to do it. But perhaps Kerr or Ingebrigtsen.

Come on. I can go as fast as I want and it’s pretty likely Ingebrigtsen, Hocker, Fisher and Young will show up. Do you have some insider information I’m not privy to? Right, it happened last in 2019 but I think it will happen again this year. Do I need to type more slowly?

In a previous post, you said Ingebrigtsen is slowly learning that it’s difficult to run 3:26 pace unless he’s in 3:24 shape. Rather than slowly, it took just 3:28.24 in Paris.

Good luck with that. Underestimating Hocker based on limited regular season results ends poorly. Even at Pre which wasn’t his best he beat most of the guys you’re thinking are better.

cant tell if you’re struggling more with English or reading comprehension generally

point was ppl say the 5000 will be a fast race every year to ‘burn Jakob’ — happened once. Ethiopians and Kenyans arent running a XC race, this is track. It happened in 19 because Edris was already world champ and bekele and barega were green, that’s it

you clearly aren’t understanding anything on the JI angle

Toyko Olympics was the smartest race tactically hes ever run.

Took it out just fast enough to bait one of the Kenyans to take it and sat until the final kick. He saw the rds previously and knew how TC had previously approached global championships — it was a master class for him.

His 5000m races are much better tactically where he plays everyone and maximizes every advantage in his arsenal. Unfortunately we’ve seen some lapses/illnesses for the 1500 globally

Jakob didn’t learn slowly or all of a sudden in a wrongly paced race that front running 3.26 or 3.27 pace is difficult. -In an interview just prior to the Paris race he said he feared he would be his own worst enemy. Why? Because he knew it’s extremely easy to screw up if you choose to be in the front a whole race…

I think Jakob was in 3.25 high shape (and could have done a 3.27 low solo) in the OG final. And I also think his strategy was perfectly sound. But the execution wasn’t. First and foremost one cannot let the competitors string out and draft on you in an uncontested inner lane position. So the first lap has to be slow enough to create chaos behind the leader. And of course one cannot burn one self with a sub 55 first lap -but Jakob knows all this. What he and we don’t know is his fitness and if his injury is totally buried in a champs that may demand 5 rounds in spikes. But exciting it will be…