Jakob Ingebrigtsen on Wightman / Kerr: "I know that I win 98 out of 100 times against them."

ingybringy wrote:

birdbeard wrote:

Well, those 2/100 sure were important ones..

Make it 97/100 when we add in Tefera (unsurprisingly also in a championship setting)

well he did have covid for that one

Ruxton Towers XC wrote:

gramps wrote:

Bet he'd trade 97 of those for the 2 that they won

I doubt that. Would you? Which one of these scenarios is the better one?

• You can be Kerr/Wightman and peak perfectly for the best race of your life and barely beat Jakob for the WC win. But the rest of your career you have to live in his shadow as he dominates you.

• Or you can be Jakob with the Olympic 1500m Gold, the fastest mile of the last 25 years, and two golds in the WC 5000m. You get to be the king of the sport by winning almost every single race you enter including the whole Diamond League. You also get to have the faster PRs and the longer career.

You'd really trade all that for those two World Champs medals? Jakob is not exactly low on championship medals...

rojo wrote:

It's going to be a fun year.

There are a lot of doubts.

1) Will Wightman be 100% healthy and get back to his 2022 form?
2) Will Jakob be 100% healthy and get back to his 2023 form?
3) Will Nuguse stay healthy and be in his 2023 form? His 5k was a little bit disappointing for me but it's pretty much irrelevant if he's in 12:52 or 13:02 shape at this point of the season.

Kerr has the advantage of always seemingly being healthy.

Here's a wild-card: George Mills. I didn't realize how damn good that dude is.

Dude ran 3:30/3:47 last year and justs dropped his 5000 pb from 13:18 to 12:58. How wild would it be if for a third straight year a Brit won the 1500 global title and each time it was a different guy?

jhellion wrote:

justanothercuriousdude wrote:

Yes I’m delusional to suggest that Jakob could run 0.6 seconds faster than in Silesia (where he on a bad day -according to himself- ran 3.27.14; practically unpaced)..!! Man, what are you on?

Hey bro, when are you going to understand that every time Jakob runs poorly he's going to say he either felt bad or was "sick".. it's his MO.

justanothercuriousdude wrote:

birdbeard wrote:

Never understood the obsession with wanting to win world titles and gold medals, eh?

He wasn’t sick in 2022 (or 2021 v Tefera).

He was sick vs Tefera (whom he beat in a similar race by 3 whole seconds a few weeks before, in an indoors WR) -Jakob even provided picture of a positive covid test!

Yeah, yeah, I know -Jakob is a chronic liar in your view (faking proof of sickness and so on) so you can disregard the context all over the place, keeping up your bias needs…

Jakob overrated tbh wrote:

ingybringy wrote:

well he did have covid for that one

1. that was only for when he lost against Kerr, had no excuse for Wightman

2. no proof he was sick considering he "magically felt better for the 5k"

birdbeard wrote:

justanothercuriousdude wrote:

He was sick vs Tefera (whom he beat in a similar race by 3 whole seconds a few weeks before, in an indoors WR) -Jakob even provided picture of a positive covid test!

Yeah, yeah, I know -Jakob is a chronic liar in your view (faking proof of sickness and so on) so you can disregard the context all over the place, keeping up your bias needs…

and the excuse for 2022, then?

loI wrote:

LetsRun.com wrote:

Rojo's Norwegian newspaper subscription pays off yet again:

Link:www.letsrun.com/news/2024/02/jakob-ing...

The article has some good news in terms of his Achilles injury plus Rojo added in a little from an Achilles expert.

"“It is an enormous level of 1500. There were probably five or six who were initially better than those who won a medal. But it will always be the case that some overperform and others underperform. And when I run 2.5 seconds slower than what I am good for, for various reasons, I am clearly dissatisfied with my own performance,” said Jakob."

Does he expect to be in low 3:27 shape in a championship race?

Jasepr wrote:

Kenenisa didn’t talk this way because he didn’t have to. He let his races show he was the best. Jakob is insecure because he has lost the big prize enough that he cannot just let his races do his talking, so his mouth runs. You didn’t hear Kenenisa say I would beat so and so 98 out of 100 times because we already knew it.

3:27 Olympic final wrote:

loI wrote:

"“It is an enormous level of 1500. There were probably five or six who were initially better than those who won a medal. But it will always be the case that some overperform and others underperform. And when I run 2.5 seconds slower than what I am good for, for various reasons, I am clearly dissatisfied with my own performance,” said Jakob."

Does he expect to be in low 3:27 shape in a championship race?

Yes he did.