Calling it now, Jakob wins the Gold Medal on Sunday and shuts

Myprediction! wrote:

Gold: Cheruiyot

Silver: Makhloufi

Bronze: Lewandowski, passing a bunch of fading runners during the last 100m

Good call!

Coevett wrote:

There's no doubt that Tim has to destroy Jakob tonight if he's going to be favorite for gold in Tokyo.

Tim: OK

Ingebrigtsen still fail to medal.

He does seem like the guy who always run to a high level, but still not enough to win medals and not enough for gold. I suspect there will always be stronger than him.

5 wrote:

Ingebrigtsen still fail to medal.

He does seem like the guy who always run to a high level, but still not enough to win medals and not enough for gold. I suspect there will always be stronger than him.

Jakob have 10 000 more meters in his feets compared to the rest of the field. That obviously makes a difference when you try to compete as a clean athlete.

PS; he is still only 19 years old ?

Aaleby wrote:

5 wrote:

Ingebrigtsen still fail to medal.

He does seem like the guy who always run to a high level, but still not enough to win medals and not enough for gold. I suspect there will always be stronger than him.

Jakob have 10 000 more meters in his feets compared to the rest of the field. That obviously makes a difference when you try to compete as a clean athlete.

1) It's his schedule

2) He did not crash out of exhaustion, his finish is not fast enough.

You heard it here first wrote:

all of you negative ninnies up!

Negative Ninnies 1, Vikings 0

Jakob is just 3 cheap shots from glory, ha ha. Plus some blind officials, a few well-placed bribes, etc.

Dad will have to change his book’s title to “How NOT to train a World Champion.” Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

5000mLegends wrote:

Aaleby wrote:

Jakob have 10 000 more meters in his feets compared to the rest of the field. That obviously makes a difference when you try to compete as a clean athlete.

1) It's his schedule

2) He did not crash out of exhaustion, his finish is not fast enough.

Maybe he wanted to gain as much experience as possible at this level? He probably wasn't going to beat Tim so why not? He's got at least a decade more at the top level. Getting any medal as a teen would have been fantastic, but really what matters is Tokyo next year when he'll be on another level. I do hope he only runs the 1500 though. He'll have potentially FOUR Olympics and SIX more World Championships before he turns 32! Big Mac, who just won silver after a 3 year lay off is 31.

He wasn't fading badly in the last 100m, especially for a clean 19 year old who'd ran himself into the ground already at these championships.

Even though the stadium was air conditioned, just spending a week in Doha must have been energy sapping in itself even before competing in two rounds of the 5000m.

The way the race played out I think Jacob should have gone with Tim and Kwemoi. His endurance is probably the best in the field save for Tim. Thinking he could outkick Mak and Lewandowsky was stupid..

Aaleby wrote:

5 wrote:

Ingebrigtsen still fail to medal.

He does seem like the guy who always run to a high level, but still not enough to win medals and not enough for gold. I suspect there will always be stronger than him.

Jakob have 10 000 more meters in his feets compared to the rest of the field. That obviously makes a difference when you try to compete as a clean athlete.

Lol a delusion.

If you are "clean" we could argue that for your first world championships at 19 years old you wouldn't be trying to double. That's more realistic. You guys will say anything to point out how he's clean SMH.

Does he think he is El guerroj or lagat?

Jakob won't medal wrote:

You heard it here first wrote:

all of you negative ninnies up!

Not only will Jakob NOT win the Gold Medal, he will not win any medal. He will finish 4th at best when everyone out kicks him down the straightaway.

Hate to say I told you so...………..but I did!

Jakob is kinda young and improving every year. You realize he is nowhere near his peak right?

Coevett wrote:

There's no doubt that Tim has to destroy Jakob tonight if he's going to be favorite for gold in Tokyo. If Jakob takes silver or bronze and gets within a second of Tim, then it's a moral victory for him and he would be odds on not only to win in Tokyo next year, but likely dominate the 1500m for the next decade.

Comedy gold! LOL.

You heard it here first wrote:

all of you negative ninnies up!

1 Timothy CHERUIYOT 3:29.26

2 Taoufik MAKHLOUFI 3:31.38

3 Marcin LEWANDOWSKI 3:31.46

4 Jakob INGEBRIGTSEN 3:31.70

5 Jake WIGHTMAN 3:31.87

6 Josh KERR 3:32.52

7 Ronald KWEMOI 3:32.72

8 Matthew CENTROWITZ 3:32.81

9 Kalle BERGLUND 3:33.70

10 Craig ENGELS 3:34.24

11 Neil GOURLEY 3:37.30

12 Youssouf HISS BACHIR 3:37.96

You were saying what, Ms. Cleo?

Myprediction! wrote:

Myprediction! wrote:

Gold: Cheruiyot

Silver: Makhloufi

Bronze: Lewandowski, passing a bunch of fading runners during the last 100m

Bingo! :)

Chapeau! ? ?

westsouthrunner wrote:

Aaleby wrote:

Jakob have 10 000 more meters in his feets compared to the rest of the field. That obviously makes a difference when you try to compete as a clean athlete.

Lol a delusion.

If you are "clean" we could argue that for your first world championships at 19 years old you wouldn't be trying to double. That's more realistic. You guys will say anything to point out how he's clean SMH.

Does he think he is El guerroj or lagat?

They tried a double to find out how it worked before the olympics. The Ingebrigtsen's aint like everyone else and in their word it is boring to just run one race in a championship. It is a WC every two years and for someone barely 19 years old it aint the end of the world to try and fail and then learn from it.

NativeSon wrote:

You heard it here first wrote:

all of you negative ninnies up!

So Jakubu will beat Timothy?

Wow!

Timothy will just pull a Beatrice Chepkoech/Helen Obiri.

At the end of that race, Kenya will have FIVE GOLD MEDALS.......

Sit and watch!

This needed to be bumped.

Bump!

Ggggg wrote:

Cheriot gold.

Jacob- no podium.

Centro- no podium.

Quite true.