Is Jakob not on Twitter anymore? He didn't reply to El G there anyway. I remember when Nick Willis Tweeted congratulations to Jakob on breaking another world junior record or something, and he Tweeted back the gratitude 🙏 emoji.
Didn't El G send him the king emoji? Maybe he took it as a diss (maybe it was a diss!).
Is Jakob not on Twitter anymore? He didn't reply to El G there anyway. I remember when Nick Willis Tweeted congratulations to Jakob on breaking another world junior record or something, and he Tweeted back the gratitude 🙏 emoji.
Didn't El G send him the king emoji? Maybe he took it as a diss (maybe it was a diss!).
He did, but he didn't link to his Twitter profile in the Tweet, or at least I can't see it - maybe Jakob has blocked me or something, lol.
Q (Paraphrased): Hicham El Guerrouj tweeted about you with a congratulations and king emoji. What's it mean for someone like that to react to your performance?
A: Ummmmmmm I mean It's cool that people ummmm follow along I guess.
I think that Jakob pretty clearly doesn't care much for El Guerrouj. Reading between the lines, it's either professional jealousy, competitiveness, or suspicion of drug use. A very different reaction to this sort of question than you might get in other situations.
Why would he congratulate him for not breaking the wr?
Q (Paraphrased): Hicham El Guerrouj tweeted about you with a congratulations and king emoji. What's it mean for someone like that to react to your performance?
A: Ummmmmmm I mean It's cool that people ummmm follow along I guess.
I think that Jakob pretty clearly doesn't care much for El Guerrouj. Reading between the lines, it's either professional jealousy, competitiveness, or suspicion of drug use. A very different reaction to this sort of question than you might get in other situations.
Why would he congratulate him for not breaking the wr?
Jakob broke Hicham’s meet record is the reason, at least that was my understanding.
Q (Paraphrased): Hicham El Guerrouj tweeted about you with a congratulations and king emoji. What's it mean for someone like that to react to your performance?
A: Ummmmmmm I mean It's cool that people ummmm follow along I guess.
I think that Jakob pretty clearly doesn't care much for El Guerrouj. Reading between the lines, it's either professional jealousy, competitiveness, or suspicion of drug use. A very different reaction to this sort of question than you might get in other situations.
Why would he congratulate him for not breaking the wr?
He congratulated him for a great run. I guess Jakob didn't think it was because he didn't get the record.
What? If Emil Zatopek tweeted you it wouldn't have meant that much? Are you being serious Jsoed?
Yes I am serious. To me Emil was just another guy. Not super talented. His work ethic though? Just amazing. Yes I could admire him but he is just another guy to me…with an extraordinary work ethic.
Depth of thought is not a characteristic of many in this sport.
I would guess it is not that Jakob doesn’t like him as much as it he wouldn’t have been alive or when alive old enough to appreciate Hicham’s performances so maybe it would be a bit like Sebastian Coe being congratulated by John Landy, just in terms of eras. The generations separate them. So Jakob could have been more gracious for sure but…
That's bull. Jakob has said that he knows all about the history of the sport.
He just has limited respect for past champions. Like quite a few here.
i think he'll easily become as fast as hicham though.jakob is only 22 and still improving.i wouldnt be at all surprised if he breaks the world record,then runs a 12.35 5000.
El G knows that if Jakob was doping like he was, he would have ran 3:22 minimum in Oslo.
He knows Jakob is doped just as much. All the best are. But Jakob's simply not as fast as El G.
Even if your belief that 'everybody dopes' is true, I'm pretty sure Jakob isn't in a position to dope with EPO or HGH as much as El G was, given that no effective test for either existed until 2005 (the year he retired).
i think he'll easily become as fast as hicham though.jakob is only 22 and still improving.i wouldnt be at all surprised if he breaks the world record,then runs a 12.35 5000.
Running 3:26.00 is 2 seconds away from 3:27.95, almost. Jakob might never get that record. Just saying.
We have 0 evidence El G ever doped. Sad this vilification of one of the greatest.